Able Seaman D/JX 168692 Albert BRAMWELL.
Royal Navy H.M.S. Laurentic (F51).
3 Nov 1940 aged 33.
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 37, Column 2.
Albert was the fourth of six sons of Joseph and Emily Bramwell (nee Young) and he married Mary Hulme in 1938 having a son born in 1940.
On 3 Nov 1940, H.M.S. Laurentic (Captain E.P. Vivian) an Armed Merchant Cruiser responded to a call for help from a ship that had been torpedoed by a U-boat. Arriving at the scene, she was targeted by two torpedoes from Type VIIB U-99 (Kapitänleutnant Otto Kretschmer).
The first hit the engine room and the second failed to detonate, a third torpedo hit her some time later. H.M.S. Laurentic fought back, but after four hours, she was struck again which sent her to the bottom, killing 49 of 416 people aboard.
H.M.S.Laurentic before the war (photo from uboat.net)
