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Portsmouth Naval Memorial
The memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and is located on Southsea Common. There are 24,593 identified casualties listed of which 10,000 were sailors in World War One. The memorial was unveiled by the Duke of York (future King George VI) on 15th October 1924
Memorial DetailDecorations Pacific Star; War Medal 1939–1945; Defence Medal (UK); 1914-15 Star; Victory & British War Medals Joined 1914-03-11 Enlistment 1916-09-16 Next of kin address England Mother Lucy Father Frederick More info Address on 1911 census: Staplers Road, Newport, Isle of Wight. Joined as a Boy on 11 March 1914. Started his Continuous Service on 16 September 1916. WW2 service: he was captured at the fall of Hong Kong, and he has a surviving POW index card. He was being transferred aboard the S.S. Lisbon Maru when it was torpedoed, this being one of the more well known instances of a Japanese controlled vessel ferrying POWs that was sunk in WW2. Was he the only Jutland veteran who died when the ship sunk? Died on 2 October 1942 at sea, aboard SS Lisbon Maru. Commemorated by the CWGC.