Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website



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Able Seaman Frederick James Johnston

Gunner

from:London

(d.2nd Dec 1940)

Frederick Johnston was my father, he was killed on 2nd December 1940 when his ship the armed merchant cruiser HMS Forfar was torpedoed by U99 while on convoy escort west of Ireland. He was 32 years old and had joined the Navy from school, he was Irish, born in Dublin and although The Irish Republic remained neutral he was one of many who joined British forces. In the early thirties he served on board HMS Ramilies which went on to survive the war!



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