Able Seaman D/JX 345118 Arnold Francis TWIGG
Royal Navy H.M.S.President III DEMS Gunner on S.S. Stornest
13 Oct 1942 aged 28
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 66, Column 3.
Husband of Emily Twigg, of Heaton Norris, Cheshire.
At 04.05 hours on 12 October 1942, Type VIIC U-706 (Kapitänleutnant Alexander von Zitzewitz) fired a torpedo at the unescorted Stornest (Master Henry Ottey Smith) west of Ireland and observed a hit under the aft mast after 34 seconds. The ship was a straggler from convoy ONS-136 due to heavy weather. The master, 38 crew members and ten gunners were lost.
S.S. Stornest (photo from uboat,net)
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