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Stkr/2 George Alexander Austin

Royal Navy HMS Phoebe

from:South Acton, London

(d.24th October 1942)

Stoker Austin was the son of Mr and Mrs Alfred George Austin; husband of Lilian Maud Austin, of South Acton, London.

He was 30 years old when the Phoebe was torpedoed by the German submarine U-161 off the Congo Estuary, while on passage to French Equatorial Africa.

He was buried in the Pointe Noire European Cemetery in the Congo.



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