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10th June 1941 On this day:  Shipping Targeted  No operational importance noted today  Maintenance  Back on operations  Flying Boat redeployments  Exercise ends  Exercise  Enemy Aircraft  Arrival If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Remembering those who died this day. Burnley Victor Leopold. SPO. (d.10th Jun 1941) Fields James. Stkr1. (d.10th June 1941) Jelley Robert Edmund. L/Cpl. (d.10th Jun 1941) Kennedy Thomas Wighton. CPO. (d.10th Jun 1941) McClintock John Leopold Elphinstone. Lt. (d.10th June 1941) Smith Gordon Henry. Able Sea. (d.10th June 1941) Stirzaker William Edward. Stoker 2nd Class (d.10th June 1941) Wilson Peter Allan. F/O (d.10th June 1941) The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. 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(d.10th June 1941) Another lost crewmate for the list of those on board HMS Pintail on 10th June 1941 is William Edward Stirzaker. I have found his record on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Site. William Edward Stirzaker. Stoker 2nd Class. R.N. H.M.S. Pintail aged 19. Date of death 10/06/1941. Service Number C/KX 108793. Memorial Reference 48, 2. Chatham Naval Memorial. Ian Stirzaker Add to this record. SPO. Victor Leopold Burnley. Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Pintail. (d.10th Jun 1941) My grandfather was Stoker Petty Officer (SPO) Victor Leopold Burnley, aged 34 years old in 1941. Victor was killed on HMS Pintail on the 10th June 1941. He also served on the following ships in 1939 to 1941, HMS Emerald, HMS Pembroke, HMS Sussex. I have also been able to establish a little more detail about the events around the sinking of HMS Pintail: On 10th June 1941, the Harwich based patrol vessel HMS Pintail was escorting a convoy near 62-Bouy, some 30 miles off the Humber, when steamship Royal Scott detonated an acoustic mine, blew up and sank. Pintail immediately dashed to the scene to help in the rescue, but she was also caught by an acoustic mine close to the steamship. HMS Pintail blew up and was lost almost immediately, instantly killing her CO Lieutenant McClintoch, six officers and 48 ratings. HMS Quantock a destroyer came to the scene and managed to save 22 crew from the water. The location of the ship is 28 miles East south east off Spurn Point. Richard Bass Add to this record. F/O Peter Allan Wilson. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 350 Sqdn.. (d.10th June 1941) F/O Wilson served with 350 Squadron and died on 10th June 1941. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Add to this record. Lt. John Leopold Elphinstone McClintock. Royal Navy, HMS Pintail. (d.10th June 1941) John McClintock served on HMS Pintail. Sylvia Wright Add to this record. Able Sea. Gordon Henry Smith. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, H.M.S. Pintail. (d.10th June 1941) Able Seaman Smith was the Son of Dudley E. and Daisy Smith, of Worthing, Sussex. He was 22 when he died and is buried To right of church, from main entrance in the Husby Churchyard in Denmark. s flynn Add to this record. Stkr1. James Fields. Royal Navy, HMS Pintail. (d.10th June 1941) James Fields was a Stoker 1st Class in HMS Pintail. Tony Fields Add to this record. CPO. Thomas Wighton Kennedy. Royal Navy, HMS Pintail. (d.10th Jun 1941) Thomas Kennedy was lost with HMS Pintail. Lynda Add to this record. L/Cpl. Robert Edmund Jelley. British Army, 4th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. (d.10th Jun 1941) Robert Jelley was an old boy of Godalming Grammar (now Godalming College), he was captured and died a POW. He is buried in Prague War Cemetery. Add to this record.

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