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

D/JX 206104

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Atkinson, John Kenneth

Able Seaman

C/JX 192769

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Backhouse, Alfred MID

Able Seaman

P/JX 341337

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 19

Dewhurst, Herbert Edward

Able Seaman

C/JX 235323

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Foxhall, Percival George Thomas

Able Seaman

P/JX 182166

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 25

Grounsell, Cyril Thomas

Able Seaman

P/JX 234155

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 31

Harvey, Robert

Able Seaman

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.

P/JX 264920

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 33

Hewitt, Alfred

Able Seaman

P/JX 143284

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Hitches, Leonard Richard

Able Seaman

C/SSX 25492

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

King, Herbert George DSC

Able Seaman

P/SD/X 1513

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Lipscombe, Leonard Albert

Able Seaman

C/J 105571

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 36

Packer, John William

Able Seaman

C/SSX 24036

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Shoulder, George Edwin

Able Seaman

C/JX 251639

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 34

Skinner, Reginald Wilfred

Able Seaman

Ex. H3944J112501

C/SSX 26827

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Wentworth, Samuel

Able Seaman

D/JX 237827

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Woods, Bertie Charles

Able Seaman

C/MX 45219

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 32

Trice, William Arthur

Chief Engine Room Artificer

C/JX 127992

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 32

Clifford, Raymond Alfred

Chief Petty Officer

D/MX 57434

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 26

Russell, Ernest Roy Wright

Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class

C/MX 73110

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 30

Jones, Arthur Herbert

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class

C/MX 71349

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 26

Noble, George Patrick

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class

C/MX 64442

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Parris, Stanley George

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class

D/MX 66023

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 21

Thompson, Roy William

Engine Room Artificer 5th Class

D/MX 53858

Born: 23rd Nov, 1916.

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 26

Tierney, George William

Leading Cook

P/SSX 30519

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 21

Horton, William Ronald

Leading Seaman

C/JX 208263

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Lee, Richard Denis

Leading Seaman

P/JX 138258

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 26

Rhodes, Bernard George

Leading Seaman

C/JX 151593

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 21

Sawyer, Geoffrey James

Leading Signalman

P/KX 96749

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Compton, Ernest Reuben

Leading Stoker

C/KX 96321

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 25

Gee, Leslie Robert

Leading Stoker

C/KX 90759

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 30

Hudson, Jeffrey King

Leading Stoker

C/KX 95072

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 24

Imison, David Howard

Leading Stoker

D/KX 95063

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Moores, Alfred

Leading Stoker

P/KX 91951

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 24

Savage, Stephen Albert

Leading Stoker

D/KX 82919

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 29

Taylor, Jack Edward

Leading Stoker

P/JX 163012

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 19

Hitchcock, Toney James

Leading Telegraphist

P/JX 132122

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 31

Murray, Athol James

Leading Telegraphist

P/JX 142344

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 24

Turner, Anthony Donald Victor Henry

Leading Telegraphist

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 24

Culham, James Willmot Samuel

Lieutenant

Born: 20th Aug, 1920.

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

From: South Africa

Gibson, Peter Rawstone Johnstone

Lieutenant

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 30

Knox, Walter Neville Ronald

Lieutenant

Commanding Officer

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 26

Sutton, Richard John

Lieutenant

D/JX 133751

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 29

Bayliss, Sidney

Petty Officer

C/JX 142283

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Ellis, George Griffith

Petty Officer

P/LX 21771

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 26

Harding, Vincent Joseph

Petty Officer

C/JX 151999

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Lowis, Reginald Edward

Petty Officer

C/JX 143312

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 23

Rawlings, Albert Edward

Petty Officer

D/KX 144749

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Brown, Robert William

Stoker 1st Class

C/KX 118956

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 29

Chesworth, Kenneth Lloyd

Stoker 1st Class

C/KX 117339

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 25

Foster, Benjamin William

Stoker 1st Class

D/KX 118461

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 21

Howell, Richard

Stoker 1st Class

C/KX 134511

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Lloyd, Richard William

Stoker 1st Class

C/KX 115870

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 34

Loughran, Henry

Stoker 1st Class

C/KX 138438

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Mathews, Gordon Frank

Stoker 1st Class

C/KX 134869

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Perry, James Charles

Stoker 1st Class

D/KX 80895

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 30

Leech, Henry

Stoker Petty Officer

C/KX 92690

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 25

Lemin, John

Stoker Petty Officer

D/KX 80286

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 31

Tatham, Bryan Palmer

Stoker Petty Officer

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Fernie, Robert Russell

Sub Lieutenant

C/JX 143583

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 24

Cox, Sydney Arthur Albert

Telegraphist

C/JX 259256

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 20

Murphy, Kenneth Charles

Telegraphist

P/SSX 30181

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 22

Wilks, William Henry

Telegraphist

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 27

Baker, Ronald Victor

Warrant Engineer

Died: 18th Apr, 1943.

Aged: 37

Pratt, Edwin Joseph Charles

Warrant Engineer

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

We Will Remember Them

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