School Shrewsbury Mill Mead Next of kin address Manor House Fowley Cross, Oakhampton England Mother Ann Dove Lees Father George John Dumville Lees (late) More info Grenville Term 1907 at Dartmouth. Promoted Lieutenant 30th September 1915. Served aboard HMS Morning Star at Jutland. Joined HMS Verulam on 26th February 1919, during which time she was part of a flotilla of destroyers operating against the Russian Bolsheviks in the Baltic. On the night of September 3rd 1919, when off Seskaer Island in the Gulf of Finland, the ship struck a mine and sank. Only 17 survivors were rescued. He is commemorated in Trefonen Parish Church and in Oakhampton Church (where his mother lived after her husbands death in 1906)