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George Hubert Joseph Cresswell

 George Hubert Joseph Cresswell

Person details

Forename(s) George Hubert Joseph
Surname Cresswell
Rank Sub-Lieutenant
Regiment Royal Navy
Age 26
Death Killed on active service when his ship struck a mine in Belfast Lough
Place of Death UK > Belfast Lough
Date of Death 18/05/1941
Year of Entry 1929
House Letter G
School Notes
Comments War record of HMS Jewel
http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?64905
'“ALGERINE” Class Fleet Minesweeper fitted with Turbine propulsion machinery ordered on 30th April 1942 from Harland and Wolff, Belfast. Laid down on 27th November 1943 at the same time as sister ships HARE and LIBERTY this ship was launched on 20th July 1944. The third RN warship ship to carry this name first used by a mercantile which accompanied the fleet during the Battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588. The name was last used by a Drifter requisitioned in 1940 for use as a minesweeper and sunk by a mine in Belfast Lough in June 1941' - the second of these ships (the drifter) was the one on which G Cresswell served

Nephew of FJ Cresswell, OR, listed on the WW1 memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit HMS Jewel
Prefect
Military Decorations
Album Number 21
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery UK > West Rudham
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Stock Exchange; married
Prep School
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary June 15 1941. In May. I941, on active service, George Hubert Joseph Cresswell, Sub-Lieut., R.N.V.R He was at Radley (Wilson Green's and Boyd's, G) from 1929 to 1933 and was in the cricket eleven his last year. At school a simple and harmonious disposition won him friends of the best type. On leaving Radley he took up work on the Stock Exchange and subsequently married. He joined up as a seaman R.N.V.R early in the war, and was later commissioned as a Tempy Sub-Lieut. His death on active service will be deeply felt by all who knew him and value quiet sincerity of character expressed in a lovable personality.
Service Number 0
Place of Birth