Able Seaman P/JX 157160 Reginald Alec WHITTAKER.
Royal Navy H.M.S.Dunedin (D93).
24 Nov 1941 aged 19.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 50, Column 1.
Son of Arthur and Jessie Whittaker, of Cheadle Heath, Cheshire.
H.M.S. Dunedin (Captain R.S. Lovatt) was steaming unescorted in the Central Atlantic Ocean, just east of the St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil, when on 24 Nov 1941, at 15:26 hours, two torpedoes from the German Type IXB U-124 (Korvettenkapitän Johann Mohr) sank her. The first torpedo struck amidships and the second torpedo striking further aft.
72 survivors were picked up by the American Nishmaha, but five men died before they reached Trinidad with only four officers and 63 men surviving out of Dunedin's crew of 486 officers and men.
H.M.S. Dunedin (photo from Uboat.net)
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