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C.Mech. Horace Albert Turvey

Royal Navy HMS Phoebe

from:Crownhill, Plymouth

(d.23rd October 1942)

Chief Mechanician Horace Turvey was the son of Harry William and Adelaide Turvey; husband of Annie Elizabeth Pearn Turvey, of Crownhill, Plymouth. He was 42 when he died and is buried in the Pointe Noire European Cemetery in the Congo.

On the 23rd October 1942, H.M.S. Phoebe was on her way to take part in operations off North Africa, when she was torpedoed off the coast of French Equatorial Africa. 46 men lost their lives in this engagement and 29 of them were buried in Pointe Noire European Cemetery in a large collective grave. This grave was later marked by a screen wall memorial, which carries details of all 46 casualties.



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