Sirdar (P226)
Built By: | Scotts (Clyde) |
Build Group: | S Group 3 |
Able Seaman Oliver Gaffney
Able Seaman Oliver Gaffney P/JX 291388 died in an accident on 6th May 1944 while HMS Sirdar was on passage to Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and was on a stopover at Aden.
Oliver Gaffney died in the RAF Hospital at Aden from a fractured vertebra/spinal cord injury, the result of a diving accident.
Twenty three year old Oliver Gaffney originally from Willington, County Durham was the son of James William and Mary Ellen Gaffney of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. He is buried in the Maala Cemetery in Yemen in Grave no F.10
Roll of Honour
Name | Rank | Number | Hons | Age |
Gaffney, Oliver | Able Seaman | P/JX 291388 | 23 | |
Died in the RAF Hospital at Aden from a fractured vertebra/spinal cord injury, the result of a diving accident 6th May 1944 |
Events
24-04-1941 : | Laid Down |
26-03-1943 : | Launched |
20-09-1943 : | Completed |
08-06-1944 : | HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca. |
11-06-1944 : | HMS Sirdar damages a Japanese coaster with gunfire north of Sumatra. |
18-07-1944 : | HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire off the west coast of Siam. |
21-07-1944 : | HMS Sirdar sinks two Japanese coasters with gunfire off the west coast of Siam. |
01-09-1944 : | HMS Sirdar sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire north-west of Sumatra. |
01-09-1944 : | HMS Sirdar sinks the Japanese guardboat Kaiyo Maru No.5 with gunfire about 17 nautical miles south-east of Meulaboh, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. |
25-12-1944 : | HMS Sirdar sinks a Japanese vessel with gunfire off Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies. |
01-02-1953 : | Sirdar was swamped by floods while in dry dock at the naval dockyard at Sheerness, Kent, and later sank. |
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