Roll Of Honour
Regent (N 41) |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | R2 |
| Fate: | HMS Regent is assumed to have been lost in the Adriatic Sea off Bari between the 18th and 25th April 1943. The submarine is thought to have strayed into a minefield. The entire crew of sixty-three Officers and Ratings were lost. The first of four bodies washed up near Brindisi on 1st May 1943 and was the body of an ERA dressed in overalls and wearing a DSEA escape kit. Another was washed up at Santa Andrea di Missipezza on 15th May 1943 also wearing a DSEA kit. On 16th May either an Officer or a Petty Officer was washed up at Torre Santo Stefano, north of Otranto and, on the same day, another was washed up at Castro Marina. |
Look up Regent (N 41) in the Boat Database
| Atkinson, John Kenneth D/JX 206104 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 23 | ||
| Backhouse, Alfred MID C/JX 192769 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 23 | ||
| Dewhurst, Herbert Edward P/JX 341337 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 19 | ||
| Foxhall, Percival George Thomas C/JX 235323 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 20 | ||
| Grounsell, Cyril Thomas P/JX 182166 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 25 | ||
| Harvey, Robert P/JX 234155 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 31 | ||
| Robert, or Bob as he was known, was born in November 1911 and had married Kate Elizabeth Frost, Kitty, in 1935, but they had no children. Kitty remarried some years after his death. Bob had been in America in 1942, when HMS Regent was being refitted, and had recorded a record which was with Kitty's family, with whom he had been staying. His sister learned of this record in 2009 and asked if she could have a copy or recording from it, to hear her brother's voice again. Sadly this has not been possible. |
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| Hewitt, Alfred P/JX 264920 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 33 | ||
| Hitches, Leonard Richard P/JX 143284 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 23 | ||
| King, Herbert George DSC C/SSX 25492 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 22 | ||
| Lipscombe, Leonard Albert P/SD/X 1513 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 20 | ||
| Packer, John William C/J 105571 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 36 | ||
| Shoulder, George Edwin C/SSX 24036 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 22 | ||
| Skinner, Reginald Wilfred C/JX 251639 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 34 | ||
| Ex. H3944J112501 | |||
| Wentworth, Samuel C/SSX 26827 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 22 | ||
| Woods, Bertie Charles D/JX 237827 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Able Seaman | Aged: 22 | ||
| Trice, William Arthur C/MX 45219 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Chief Engine Room Artificer | Aged: 32 | ||
| Clifford, Raymond Alfred C/JX 127992 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Chief Petty Officer | Aged: 32 | ||
| Russell, Ernest Roy Wright D/MX 57434 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | Aged: 26 | ||
| Jones, Arthur Herbert C/MX 73110 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | Aged: 30 | ||
| Noble, George Patrick C/MX 71349 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | Aged: 26 | ||
| Parris, Stanley George C/MX 64442 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | Aged: 22 | ||
| Thompson, Roy William D/MX 66023 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Engine Room Artificer 5th Class | Aged: 21 | ||
| Tierney, George William D/MX 53858 | Born: 23rd Nov, 1916. | ||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Cook | Aged: 26 | ||
| Horton, William Ronald P/SSX 30519 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Seaman | Aged: 21 | ||
| Lee, Richard Denis C/JX 208263 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Seaman | Aged: 22 | ||
| Rhodes, Bernard George P/JX 138258 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Seaman | Aged: 26 | ||
| Sawyer, Geoffrey James C/JX 151593 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Signalman | Aged: 21 | ||
| Compton, Ernest Reuben P/KX 96749 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 23 | ||
| Gee, Leslie Robert C/KX 96321 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 25 | ||
| Hudson, Jeffrey King C/KX 90759 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 30 | ||
| Imison, David Howard C/KX 95072 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 24 | ||
| Moores, Alfred D/KX 95063 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 23 | ||
| Savage, Stephen Albert P/KX 91951 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 24 | ||
| Taylor, Jack Edward D/KX 82919 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Stoker | Aged: 29 | ||
| Hitchcock, Toney James P/JX 163012 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Telegraphist | Aged: 19 | ||
| Murray, Athol James P/JX 132122 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Telegraphist | Aged: 31 | ||
| Turner, Anthony Donald Victor Henry P/JX 142344 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Leading Telegraphist | Aged: 24 | ||
| Culham, James Willmot Samuel | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Lieutenant | Aged: 24 | ||
| Gibson, Peter Rawstone Johnstone | Born: 20th Aug, 1920. | ||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Lieutenant | Aged: 22 | ||
| from South Africa | |||
| Knox, Walter Neville Ronald | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Lieutenant | Aged: 30 | ||
| Commanding Officer | |||
| Sutton, Richard John | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Lieutenant | Aged: 26 | ||
| Bayliss, Sidney D/JX 133751 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Petty Officer | Aged: 29 | ||
| Ellis, George Griffith C/JX 142283 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Petty Officer | Aged: 23 | ||
| Harding, Vincent Joseph P/LX 21771 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Petty Officer | Aged: 26 | ||
| Lowis, Reginald Edward C/JX 151999 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Petty Officer | Aged: 22 | ||
| Rawlings, Albert Edward C/JX 143312 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Petty Officer | Aged: 23 | ||
| Brown, Robert William D/KX 144749 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 20 | ||
| Chesworth, Kenneth Lloyd C/KX 118956 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 29 | ||
| Foster, Benjamin William C/KX 117339 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 25 | ||
| Howell, Richard D/KX 118461 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 21 | ||
| Lloyd, Richard William C/KX 134511 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 22 | ||
| Loughran, Henry C/KX 115870 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 34 | ||
| Mathews, Gordon Frank C/KX 138438 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 20 | ||
| Perry, James Charles C/KX 134869 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker 1st Class | Aged: 20 | ||
| Leech, Henry D/KX 80895 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker Petty Officer | Aged: 30 | ||
| Lemin, John C/KX 92690 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker Petty Officer | Aged: 25 | ||
| Tatham, Bryan Palmer D/KX 80286 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Stoker Petty Officer | Aged: 31 | ||
| Fernie, Robert Russell | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Sub Lieutenant | Aged: 20 | ||
| Cox, Sydney Arthur Albert C/JX 143583 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Telegraphist | Aged: 24 | ||
| Murphy, Kenneth Charles C/JX 259256 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Telegraphist | Aged: 20 | ||
| Wilks, William Henry P/SSX 30181 | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Telegraphist | Aged: 22 | ||
| Baker, Ronald Victor | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Warrant Engineer | Aged: 27 | ||
| Pratt, Edwin Joseph Charles | |||
| Died: 18th Apr, 1943. | |||
| Warrant Engineer | Aged: 37 | ||
| Ex. M36621 | |||
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
A Tribute To Submariners
I have often looked for an opportunity of paying tribute to our submariners.
There is no branch of His Majesty's Forces which in this war has suffered the same proportion of total loss as our submarine service.
It is the most dangerous of all services.
That is perhaps the reason why the First Lord tells me that the entry into it is keenly sought by Officers and Men.
I feel sure the House would wish to testify its gratitude and admiration to our Submariners for their Skill - Courage and Devotion which has proved of inestimable value to the sustenance of our country.
Winston Churchill
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We Will Remember Them |
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