Able Seaman D/JX 345120 Thomas O'DONNELL.
Royal Navy H.M.S. Isis (D87).
20 Jul 1944 aged 21.
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 87, Column 1.
Thomas was the eldest of three children, of Thomas O'Donnell and Bertha Redfern who married at St.Paul's Portwood.
H.M.S. Isis (Lieutenant Commander Henry Dumaresq Durell) was mined and sunk off Normandy, France on 20 Jul 1944. The wreck is in 20 meters of water about 5 miles North-East of Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy.
155 of ship's company ware killed, with survivors spending several hours in the water. 21 of the survivors were rescued by H.M.S. Hound but one later died, others were rescued by a U.S.N. Rescue Cutter, in total 45 of the crew survived.
H.M.S. Isis (photo from Pinterest)
