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227677Able.Sea. Frank Lomax MID.
Royal Navy HMS Sleuth
from:Widnes, Lancashire
Frank Lomax served on:
- HMS Raleigh, 3rd July 1940 as an ordinary seaman.
- HMS Drake 10th September 1940.
- HMS Defiance 2nd October 1940.
- HMS Dolphin 6th February 1941.
- HMS Maidstone 26th April 1941; 27th June 1941 as Able Seaman; 3rd July 1941 Able Seaman.
- HMS St Angelo (SC) 18th July 1941; (HM Sub Urge) 16th September 1941. (Sub lost 28th April 1942); (SC) 16th November 1941.
- HMS Talbot (HMS Sub Una) 28th February 1943.
- HMS Dolphin (S/M's) 2nd March 1943.
- HMS Ambrose (S/M's) 14th May 1943.
- HMS Ambrose (HM Sub Sea Dog) 12th October 1943.
- HMS Forth (HM Sea Dog) 15th August 1944; (S/M's) 29th November 1944; (HM Sub Sleuth) 10th January 1945.
- HMS Maidstone (HM Sub Sleuth) 12 January 1945.
- HMS Dolphin (HM Sub Sleuth) 1st October 194; (S/M's) 22nd February 1946 Released Class A.
He was Mentioned in Dispatches: for Distinguished Service (HM Sub Unseen) No. 1 1st June 1943 - Parchment. and for Distinguished Service (HM Sub Sleuth) No. 2 18th December 1945 - Parchment.
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