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24th May 1941On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Elliot John George. PO.Sto. (d.24th May 1941)
- Godsmark Bernard Albert. PO (d.24th May 1941)
- Hill Charles. Pte. (d.24th May 1941)
- Laws Albert Edward. Ch.Stkr (d.24th May 1941)
- Norris Thomas Francis. Stkr./2 (d.24th May 1941)
- Powley Herbert William. Ch.ERA. (d.24th May 1941)
- Scott James. Ldg.Stkr. (d.24th May 1941)
- Younger Albert. Marine. (d.24th May 1941)
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Stories from 24th May 1941
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PO.Sto. John George Elliot. Royal Navy, HMS Hood. (d.24th May 1941) John George Elliot who died aged 35 was the husband of Hilda Victoria Elliot of Jarrow.
John is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall. Vin Mullen
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Ch.Stkr Albert Edward Laws. Royal Navy, HMS Hood. (d.24th May 1941) Albert Laws was born in Jarrow in 1905. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Laws and husband of Ivy Laws (nee Cook) of Southsea, Hampshire.
Albert is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall. Vin Mullen
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Ldg.Stkr. James Scott. Royal Navy, HMS Hood. (d.24th May 1941) James Scott, son of James and Hattie Scott, was born on 1st September 1897 in Morpeth, Northumberland. He was the husband of Nellie Scott. He died on 24th May 1941 after the Hood was hit by German shells during the Battle of the Denmark Strait. He is commemorated at Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He is also commemorated at Hood Chapel, Church of St John the Baptist, Boldre, Hampshire, and on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance to Jarrow Town Hall.Vin Mullen
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Marine. Albert Younger. Royal Marines, HMS Hood. (d.24th May 1941) Albert Younger died aged 19, he was the son of late John G. N. Younger and Lilian Younger of Jarrow. He had joined HMS Hood in February 1940. Albert is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall. Vin Mullen
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PO Bernard Albert Godsmark. Royal Air Force, 114 (Hong Kong) Squadron. (d.24th May 1941) Transcript from a letter in my father Bernard Godsmark's mementos, probably from the Squadron HQ staff:
Blenheim No. 114 Squadron,
Pilot Sgt McWilliams,
Observer P/O Godsmark
Wireless Operator &
Air Gunner Sgt Maddison, took off from Leuchars, 11.00 hrs, 24th of May 1941 on a Recce of enemy shipping off Norwegian coast. Nothing more was heard of them. Terry Godsmark
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Ch.ERA. Herbert William Powley. Royal Navy, HMS Hood. (d.24th May 1941) Herbert Powley was born on 2nd December 1900 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, the son of William Charles Powley and Bessie nee Phippen. His father was a coach finisher on the railways. His father died when Herbert was only four. Soon thereafter, Herbert moved to Exeter with his mother and two sisters, and he later attended Hele's Grammar School in the city.
Herbert signed up for the Royal Navy on his eighteenth birthday, soon after the end of the First World War. He was a boy artificer. His first assignment was on HMS Indus, which was the Engine Room Artificer's Training establishment commissioned in 1904.
Soon after his 25th birthday, he was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy. First, he was assigned to HMA London until 17th December 1925, then served on Cerberus (18th December 1925 to 10th March 1926), Geranium (11th March 1926 to 9th May 1927 and Penguin (10th May 1927 to 28th January 1928).
HMAS Cerberus was the Royal Australian Navy's primary training establishment, located adjacent to Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1927 whilst in Australia he married Marion Broadhead, a worsted mender, who had travelled to Australia from Leeds, Yorkshire, to join her sister, Alice. Herbert was friends with a fellow secondee, Herbert Broadhead, Marion's brother.
From 1934 until 1939, Herbert was based in Malta, and served on HMS Hood. Herbert served as president of the Engine Room Articifers Club in Malta and was presented with a silver tea service in recognition. The family moved back to England in 1939 and lived in Headingley, Leeds. The outbreak of the Second World War meant that Herbert did not retire when he became 40, and he died when HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck at the Battle of Denmark Strait.
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Pte. Charles Hill. British Army, 4th Btn Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. (d.24th May 1941) Private Hill was the Son of Charles Ormond Hill and Jemima Hill, of Nairn. His brother, John, also died on service.
He was 26 and is buried in the Barcelona (Montjuich) Cemetery in Spain.
S. Flynn
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