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H 34

Built By: Cammell Laird (Mersey)
Build Group: H21
Fate: H34 was the last H21 Class submarine to be taken out of service in October 1945, 28 years after she was laid down at Cammell Laird. She was later scrapped in July 1945 at Troon
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Commanders
1925: Lieutenant   George Cunningham Paton Menzies
1928: Lieutenant   Hugh Waters Shelley Browning
1931: Lieutenant   John Wentworth McCoy
1932: Lieutenant   Ronald McClellan Powning Jonas
1935: Lieutenant   Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett
1937: Lieutenant   John Esmond Moore
1938: Lieutenant   John Esmond Moore
1939: Lieutenant   Martin Keith-Roach
1939: Lieutenant   Basil Tremayne Simons
1939: Lieutenant   Edward Francis Balston
1940: Lieutenant   Lennox William Napier
1940: Lieutenant   Anthony Foster Collett
1941: Lieutenant   Walter Augustus Phillimore
1941: Lieutenant   Compton Patrick Norman
1941: Lieutenant   Henry Winter
1941: Lieutenant   John Symons Huddart
1942: Lieutenant   Richard Gatehouse DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Aston Dalzell Piper (RNR) DSC
1942: Lieutenant   John Philip Holroyde Oakley DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Frederick Danford Gordon Challis DSC MID
1942: Lieutenant   Gordon Maurice Noll MID
1943: Acting Lieutenant   Reginald Lewis Willoughby (RNR)
1943: Lieutenant   Barry Charles DSC
1943: Lieutenant   Richard Lionel Jay
1943: Lieutenant   John Peter Angell
1944: Lieutenant   Allan Miles Brittain Buxton
1944: Acting Lieutenant   John David Tweedie (RNVR)

1932: 6th Submarine Flotilla

Roll of Honour

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Died: 20-09-1944
Mawson, Leslie  P/JX 397926
Able Seaman Died: 20-09-1944 Aged: 20
from Bradford  UK
Leslie Mawson was the twenty-year-old son of Thomas Gilbert Mawson (a gardener) and Agnes Mawson. It is understood that he died at home from coal gas poisoning having committed suicide

Bradford Observer - Saturday 23 September 1944
Shipley Seaman Gassed Himself

A verdict that "Death was due to from coal-gas poisoning, self-administered while suffering from mental' depression," was returned by the jury at an inquest at Shipley yesterday on Ordinary Seaman Leslie Mawson (20). of 14, West Royd Road. Shipley. Mawson had been ill since May and had recently returned from hospital at Liverpool. He was suffering from a duodenal ulcer, which brought about a nervous condition.

Events

 20-11-1917   Laid Down
 05-11-1918   Launched
 10-09-1919   Completed
 30-09-1939   HMS H-34 fires two torpedoes at the German submarine U-3 15 nautical miles north of Kinnaird Head. The torpedoes miss.
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