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Stwd. Derek Edward Jones
Royal Navy HMS Repulse
from:Dudleston Heath, Shropshire
Derek Jones joined the RN in September 1939. He was drafted to HMS Repulse and was aboard her when it was sunk by the Japanese off Singapore on 10th of December 1941. He joined HMS Endeavour in Colombo in 1941 and was with her during the surveying of the Red Sea of that year. He saw the sale of the Endeavour and her decommissioning.