Stoker 1st Class D/KX114267 Fred ROBERTS.
Royal Navy H.M.S. Exeter (68).
22 Mar 1945 aged 32.
Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia, 28. F. 5.
Son of Fred and Mary Ann Roberts, of Stockport, Cheshire.
Husband of Lilian Roberts, of Heaton Norris, Stockport.
On 1 Mar 1942 H.M.S. Exeter (Captain Oliver Loudon Gordon, MVO) was sunk in the East Indies, north west of Surabaya in Java Sea, by torpedoes and 8-inch gunfire from a Japanese cruiser force.
The Japanese rescued 652, including the captain, who became prisoners of war. Fred was one of 152 who died in captivity.
H.M.S. Exeter (photo from naval-history.net)
