Sick Berth Attendant P/MX 94619 Harold Holden KITCHEN.
Royal Navy H.M.S. Penelope (97).
18 Feb 1944 aged 40.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 87, Column 1.
Samuel Holden Kitchen and Annie Birkett had four children with Harold being the third. In 1940 Harold married Annie Whittaker at the Thompson Street Baptist Church in Stockport.
On 18 Feb 1944, H.M.S.Penelope (Capt. George Devereux Belben, DSO, DSC, AM) was leaving the Anzio area to return to Naples when she was torpedoed by the German submarine Type VIIC U-410 (Oberleutnant Horst-Arno Fenski). The torpedo struck her in the after engine room and was followed, 16 minutes later, by a second one which hit in the after boiler room, causing her immediate sinking.
The commander, 24 officers, 368 ratings and 24 Marines were lost. The 208 survivors were picked up by H.M.S.L.S.T.-165 and H.M.S.L.S.T.-430.
H.M.S. Penelope (photo from Imperial War Museum)
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