Stoker LT/KX 107311 George Edward WHALLEY.
Royal Naval Patrol Service H.M.T Arctic Pioneer (FY167).
27 May 1942 aged 21.
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, E. 62. 1-18 Coll. grave.
Son of Edward and Elizabeth Whalley, of Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire.
Husband. of Doris Whalley, of Higher Hillgate, Stockport.
H.M.T. Arctic Pioneer (Skr. George Bryan) was sunk by a bomb, dropped from a German Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber in the Cowes Roads outside of Portsmouth Harbour. 18 were killed and are buried in Haslar Naval cemetery in Gosport, with 16 survivors picked up.
Grave of George WHALLEY (photo from billion graves)
