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Sickle (P 224)

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Built By: Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Fate: Believed lost when she struck a mine in the Kythera Channel. Sickle was the last British submarine to be lost in the Mediterranean during WW2

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D/JX 287352
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Grounds, Arthur Frank
P/JX 132095
Born: 1st Nov, 1912.
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 31
Crook, Frederick Charles MID*
Able Seaman
D/JX 27969
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Green, Cyril Charles
Able Seaman
P/JX 388577
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 19
Hallett, Edward Ernest MID
Able Seaman
P/JX 274024
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Harratt, George Herbert
Able Seaman
P/JX 235902
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Hockless, George William
Able Seaman
 
D/JX 304833
Died: 4th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 20
MacKay, David
Able Seaman
Reported to have died from wounds received in a surface gun action in which two others were wounded and AB Richard Blake was lost overboard.

AB Blake was rescued by German Forces and, accidentally and very luckily, became the only survivor of HMS Sickle which was ‘sunk with all hands’ twelve days later on 16th June. He did however spend the rest of the war as a Prisoner of War!
 
P/JX 350158
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 21
Marshall, Richard
Able Seaman
D/JX 346302
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 20
McNeill, William Bonner
Able Seaman
P/JX 358538
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 20
Stevens, Nicholas Charles
Able Seaman
P/JX 324209
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Stewart, John Raymond
Able Seaman
C/JX 334182
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 32
Yielding, Harry Arthur
Able Seaman
D/MX 54330
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 30
Nettleton, John DSM
Chief Engine Room Artificer
P/J 114226
Born: 4th Mar, 1910.
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 34
From: Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Mitchell, Cecil John
Chief Petty Officer
One of seven children, the son of John Mitchell (1882 to 1947) and Hagar nee Collins (1882 to 1961)

Cecil joined the Royal Navy in 1925 as a Boy II Class, whilst employed as a “colliery boy”. He trained at HMS Impregnable, a 106 gun “wooden wall” warship launched in 1810 and used from 1862 as a training ship. He was here from June 1925 to October 1926, by which time he had been promoted to Boy I Class.

Once trained, he went aboard the battleship HMS Benbow until the 25th of August 1927 and then the light cruiser HMS Cambrian upon which he was promoted from Boy to Ordinary and then Able Seaman and also signed up for twelve years on the 4th of May 1928.

Having signed up, he was posted to the destroyer HMS Blanche, followed by the battleship, HMS Revenge from 1932 to 1934.

Cecil continued to serve alternatively on ships and shore stations. His next ship was the battleship Iron Duke; battleship Repulse, 1936 (in which he was promoted to Acting Petty Officer); cruiser HMS Belfast 1939 four months; He was awarded the Naval General Service Medal (Palestine claps) on the 11th of March 1941, then on the 23rd of September 1941 he transferred to HMS Dolphin, HQ for the submarine service and thence to the submarine depot ship Cyclops on the 11th of November.

His service record does not record his ships served on after the Cyclops. However, he is known to have have been a torpedo instructor and to have served on the submarine Seraph during Operation Torch, the North African landings in 1942.
C/JX 135449
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 28
Rolph, David
Chief Petty Officer
P/MX 62015
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 27
Hamilton, David
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
C/MX 64427
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 25
Hancock, George Raymond
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
C/MX 77329
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 26
Stark, Thomas Allenby
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
P/MX 88530
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Jones, Leslie
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
C/MX 102529
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Learmouth, Duncan Henry
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
P/MX 109654
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 31
Lee, Cyril Thomas George
Leading Cook
P/JX 175589
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 26
Jack, Thomas
Leading Seaman
C/SSX 32208
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Mobbs, Stanley Norman
Leading Seaman
D/JX 305124
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Roose, Gordon Walter
Leading Seaman
C/JX 157097
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 21
Cuthbert, Alfred William Ernest
Leading Signalman
C/KX 97357
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 26
Davies, Edward William
Leading Stoker
P/KX 97034
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 28
Evans, Alfred Edward
Leading Stoker
P/SKX 278
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Gilmore, Roy
Leading Stoker
P/KX 139537
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 20
Martin, Sidney
Leading Stoker
D/SKX 1253
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 21
Seymour, Raymond Norman George
Leading Stoker
C/SSX 21035
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 24
Bigglestone, Harry Dudley
Leading Telegraphist
C/JX 233276
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 30
Brookes, George Owen
Leading Telegraphist
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 26
Drummond, James Ralph DSO*
Lieutenant
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 25
Goodman, Percival David (RNVR)
Lieutenant
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 28
Jakeman, Patrick Baddeley (RNVR)
Lieutenant
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 21
Sinclair, Anthony Douglas DSC
Lieutenant
P/JX 149577
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Edwards, Ernest Ronald
Petty Officer
D/JX 152043
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Pope, Frederick Ellis
Petty Officer
P/JX 152374
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 23
Tugwell, Arthur Edward
Petty Officer
D/JX 141071
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 26
Davidson, Walter MID
Petty Officer Telegraphist
D/SKX 988
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 20
Cooke, John James
Stoker 1st Class
D/KX 101132
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 24
Duncan, Alexander Durham McGregor
Stoker 1st Class
P/KX 138006
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 21
Pearson, John Telfer
Stoker 1st Class
P/KX 95156
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 27
Sturgess, Major Victor
Stoker 1st Class
C/KX 145585
Born: 23rd Sep, 1921.
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Willcocks, Henry Alfred
Stoker 1st Class
P/KX 85960
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 31
Bowen, Harry Wilfred MID*
Stoker Petty Officer
P/KX 83280
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 30
Woollatt, Arthur Albert
Stoker Petty Officer
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 22
Walker, Victor Paul (RNVR)
Sub Lieutenant
C/JX 194734
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 20
Dunstone, David Hughes
Telegraphist
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 42
Francis, George
Warrant Engineer

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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This list has been made possible by the hard work of Pam Armstrong in the first instance and has lately been refined by Malcolm Blenkinsopp, Honorary Historian at Espana Levante Submariners

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