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Able Seaman Alfred Callister
Royal Navy HMS Exeter
from:Tyldesley, Lancashire
(d.1st March 1942)
Alfred (my paternal uncle) was the youngest son of Herbert and Martha-Alice Callister, born 12th February 1922 in Tyldesley, Lancashire. A miner before enlisting in the Royal Navy on 10th December 1940, Alfred was also a prominent member of the Salvation Army, having played the trombone for a number of years. Alfred was killed in action, on 1st March 1942 at the Battle of the Java Sea. He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 64, Column 2 and also on the Cenotaph in Tyldesley Cemetery.