This is a Cenotaph. Actual burial here
He was a Cook in the Merchant Navy. All records have name as H K Webster. Cemetery records state he was a Casualty of War. Died with 4 others on 19 Aug 1942 off Dover, when their ship HMS Golden Sunbeam was involved in a collision and sunk. His body was found at Folkestone on 2 Sep 1942. The ship, which was a Steam Drifter, was hired by the Admiralty as a flare vessel in 1939.
CWGC have him recorded as Horace Knowles Webster and commemorated here but the Actuak Burial and CWGC headstone is at Hawkinge Cemetery. He was the Son of Charles MacHardy Webster and Mary Sim Webster, of Aberdeen; husband of Jane Morrison Craig Webster, of Aberdeen.
LEADING COOK
HORACE KNOWLES WEBSTER
Service Number: LT/MX 88016
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Patrol Service
H.M. Drifter Golden Sunbeam.
Date of Death
Died 19 August 1942
Age 42 years old
Buried or commemorated at
LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 10. Column 2.
United Kingdom
He was a Cook in the Merchant Navy. All records have name as H K Webster. Cemetery records state he was a Casualty of War. Died with 4 others on 19 Aug 1942 off Dover, when their ship HMS Golden Sunbeam was involved in a collision and sunk. His body was found at Folkestone on 2 Sep 1942. The ship, which was a Steam Drifter, was hired by the Admiralty as a flare vessel in 1939.
CWGC have him recorded as Horace Knowles Webster and commemorated here but the Actuak Burial and CWGC headstone is at Hawkinge Cemetery. He was the Son of Charles MacHardy Webster and Mary Sim Webster, of Aberdeen; husband of Jane Morrison Craig Webster, of Aberdeen.
LEADING COOK
HORACE KNOWLES WEBSTER
Service Number: LT/MX 88016
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Patrol Service
H.M. Drifter Golden Sunbeam.
Date of Death
Died 19 August 1942
Age 42 years old
Buried or commemorated at
LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 10. Column 2.
United Kingdom
This is a Cenotaph. Actual burial here
He was a Cook in the Merchant Navy. All records have name as H K Webster. Cemetery records state he was a Casualty of War. Died with 4 others on 19 Aug 1942 off Dover, when their ship HMS Golden Sunbeam was involved in a collision and sunk. His body was found at Folkestone on 2 Sep 1942. The ship, which was a Steam Drifter, was hired by the Admiralty as a flare vessel in 1939.
CWGC have him recorded as Horace Knowles Webster and commemorated here but the Actuak Burial and CWGC headstone is at Hawkinge Cemetery. He was the Son of Charles MacHardy Webster and Mary Sim Webster, of Aberdeen; husband of Jane Morrison Craig Webster, of Aberdeen.
LEADING COOK
HORACE KNOWLES WEBSTER
Service Number: LT/MX 88016
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Patrol Service
H.M. Drifter Golden Sunbeam.
Date of Death
Died 19 August 1942
Age 42 years old
Buried or commemorated at
LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 10. Column 2.
United Kingdom
He was a Cook in the Merchant Navy. All records have name as H K Webster. Cemetery records state he was a Casualty of War. Died with 4 others on 19 Aug 1942 off Dover, when their ship HMS Golden Sunbeam was involved in a collision and sunk. His body was found at Folkestone on 2 Sep 1942. The ship, which was a Steam Drifter, was hired by the Admiralty as a flare vessel in 1939.
CWGC have him recorded as Horace Knowles Webster and commemorated here but the Actuak Burial and CWGC headstone is at Hawkinge Cemetery. He was the Son of Charles MacHardy Webster and Mary Sim Webster, of Aberdeen; husband of Jane Morrison Craig Webster, of Aberdeen.
LEADING COOK
HORACE KNOWLES WEBSTER
Service Number: LT/MX 88016
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Patrol Service
H.M. Drifter Golden Sunbeam.
Date of Death
Died 19 August 1942
Age 42 years old
Buried or commemorated at
LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 10. Column 2.
United Kingdom
Inscription
Royal Naval Patrol Service
Gravesite Details
LT/MX 88016
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