Roy was a Lieut-Commander in the Royal Navy~ H.M.S. Watchful
He held the DSO awarded for courage and skill in securing and stripping live enemy mines without regard to his own safety.He dealt with around 180 mines within two months.Commendation awarded for coolness and devotion to duty.
Assisted by CPO Spriggs, AB Keen and AB Wilson, he was killed with Ensign John Martin Howard United States Naval Reserve~ Service #: O-096143 at Corton Sands near Lowestoft while attempting to render safe a German GT moored mine.
John is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial though in fact he was Buried At Sea.
Roy was 39 and the son of Charley James and Florence Edwards; husband of Winifred Allie Edwards, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was an Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. [A.M.I.E.E.]
Roy is commemorated in Wistaston Village Hall and both are commemorated on a special memorial in the minster church [St Nicholas] of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
He held the DSO awarded for courage and skill in securing and stripping live enemy mines without regard to his own safety.He dealt with around 180 mines within two months.Commendation awarded for coolness and devotion to duty.
Assisted by CPO Spriggs, AB Keen and AB Wilson, he was killed with Ensign John Martin Howard United States Naval Reserve~ Service #: O-096143 at Corton Sands near Lowestoft while attempting to render safe a German GT moored mine.
John is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial though in fact he was Buried At Sea.
Roy was 39 and the son of Charley James and Florence Edwards; husband of Winifred Allie Edwards, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was an Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. [A.M.I.E.E.]
Roy is commemorated in Wistaston Village Hall and both are commemorated on a special memorial in the minster church [St Nicholas] of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Roy was a Lieut-Commander in the Royal Navy~ H.M.S. Watchful
He held the DSO awarded for courage and skill in securing and stripping live enemy mines without regard to his own safety.He dealt with around 180 mines within two months.Commendation awarded for coolness and devotion to duty.
Assisted by CPO Spriggs, AB Keen and AB Wilson, he was killed with Ensign John Martin Howard United States Naval Reserve~ Service #: O-096143 at Corton Sands near Lowestoft while attempting to render safe a German GT moored mine.
John is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial though in fact he was Buried At Sea.
Roy was 39 and the son of Charley James and Florence Edwards; husband of Winifred Allie Edwards, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was an Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. [A.M.I.E.E.]
Roy is commemorated in Wistaston Village Hall and both are commemorated on a special memorial in the minster church [St Nicholas] of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
He held the DSO awarded for courage and skill in securing and stripping live enemy mines without regard to his own safety.He dealt with around 180 mines within two months.Commendation awarded for coolness and devotion to duty.
Assisted by CPO Spriggs, AB Keen and AB Wilson, he was killed with Ensign John Martin Howard United States Naval Reserve~ Service #: O-096143 at Corton Sands near Lowestoft while attempting to render safe a German GT moored mine.
John is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial though in fact he was Buried At Sea.
Roy was 39 and the son of Charley James and Florence Edwards; husband of Winifred Allie Edwards, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was an Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. [A.M.I.E.E.]
Roy is commemorated in Wistaston Village Hall and both are commemorated on a special memorial in the minster church [St Nicholas] of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Gravesite Details
Lieut-Commander, Royal Navy. Age: 39.
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