Son of Henry Brown and Hannah Dresden.
MILITARY DETAILS
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WIREMAN
No.P/MX 71973
ROYAL NAVY
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THE SINKING OF H.M.S FIJI - TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA
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On 22nd May 1941 she was acting in company with the destroyers H.M.S Kandahar and H.M.S Kingston shortly after the loss of the cruiser H.M.S Gloucester.
These ships fought on and shot down one attacker and damaged two others. She finally expended all of her anti-aircraft ammunition fighting off numerous air attacks that persisted for two hours.
She was attacked and hit by several bombs from Messerschmitt Bf 109s before an aircraft of Jagdgeschwader 77 dropped a bomb close alongside to port. This blew in Fiji’s bottom plates and caused a list to port.
H.M.S Fiji lost power and came to a standstill. She was now largely defenceless, having practically exhausted her 4 inch ammunition.
She was then hit by three bombs dropped by a Junkers Ju 88.
Captain Peveril William-Powlett gave the order to abandon ship and H.M.S Fiji rolled over and sank. The destroyers dropped floats and withdrew to the south. They returned after dark to pick up 523 survivors. 241 men were killed when the ship sank to the sea floor.
On the 30th May 1941, in a letter to the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, Admiral Cunningham wrote, "The sending back of H.M.S Gloucester and H.M.S Fiji to H.M.S Greyhound was another grave error and cost us those two ships.
They were practically out of ammunition but even had they been full up I think they would have gone. The Commanding Officer of Fiji told me that the air over Gloucester was black with planes."
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Phillip was among the 241 men aboard H.M.S Fiji who lost their lives that day.
He was 20 years old.
Phillip is NOT buried in this cemetery but he is COMMEMORATED on his parents headstone.
The headstone states that Phillip died on the 17th May, but all official Military Records list him as having died on the 23rd May, so l have recorded his death in line with the Military Records.
Pictured right - H.M.S Fiji.
MILITARY DETAILS
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WIREMAN
No.P/MX 71973
ROYAL NAVY
***************
THE SINKING OF H.M.S FIJI - TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA
*****************************************************
On 22nd May 1941 she was acting in company with the destroyers H.M.S Kandahar and H.M.S Kingston shortly after the loss of the cruiser H.M.S Gloucester.
These ships fought on and shot down one attacker and damaged two others. She finally expended all of her anti-aircraft ammunition fighting off numerous air attacks that persisted for two hours.
She was attacked and hit by several bombs from Messerschmitt Bf 109s before an aircraft of Jagdgeschwader 77 dropped a bomb close alongside to port. This blew in Fiji’s bottom plates and caused a list to port.
H.M.S Fiji lost power and came to a standstill. She was now largely defenceless, having practically exhausted her 4 inch ammunition.
She was then hit by three bombs dropped by a Junkers Ju 88.
Captain Peveril William-Powlett gave the order to abandon ship and H.M.S Fiji rolled over and sank. The destroyers dropped floats and withdrew to the south. They returned after dark to pick up 523 survivors. 241 men were killed when the ship sank to the sea floor.
On the 30th May 1941, in a letter to the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, Admiral Cunningham wrote, "The sending back of H.M.S Gloucester and H.M.S Fiji to H.M.S Greyhound was another grave error and cost us those two ships.
They were practically out of ammunition but even had they been full up I think they would have gone. The Commanding Officer of Fiji told me that the air over Gloucester was black with planes."
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Phillip was among the 241 men aboard H.M.S Fiji who lost their lives that day.
He was 20 years old.
Phillip is NOT buried in this cemetery but he is COMMEMORATED on his parents headstone.
The headstone states that Phillip died on the 17th May, but all official Military Records list him as having died on the 23rd May, so l have recorded his death in line with the Military Records.
Pictured right - H.M.S Fiji.
Son of Henry Brown and Hannah Dresden.
MILITARY DETAILS
******************
WIREMAN
No.P/MX 71973
ROYAL NAVY
***************
THE SINKING OF H.M.S FIJI - TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA
*****************************************************
On 22nd May 1941 she was acting in company with the destroyers H.M.S Kandahar and H.M.S Kingston shortly after the loss of the cruiser H.M.S Gloucester.
These ships fought on and shot down one attacker and damaged two others. She finally expended all of her anti-aircraft ammunition fighting off numerous air attacks that persisted for two hours.
She was attacked and hit by several bombs from Messerschmitt Bf 109s before an aircraft of Jagdgeschwader 77 dropped a bomb close alongside to port. This blew in Fiji’s bottom plates and caused a list to port.
H.M.S Fiji lost power and came to a standstill. She was now largely defenceless, having practically exhausted her 4 inch ammunition.
She was then hit by three bombs dropped by a Junkers Ju 88.
Captain Peveril William-Powlett gave the order to abandon ship and H.M.S Fiji rolled over and sank. The destroyers dropped floats and withdrew to the south. They returned after dark to pick up 523 survivors. 241 men were killed when the ship sank to the sea floor.
On the 30th May 1941, in a letter to the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, Admiral Cunningham wrote, "The sending back of H.M.S Gloucester and H.M.S Fiji to H.M.S Greyhound was another grave error and cost us those two ships.
They were practically out of ammunition but even had they been full up I think they would have gone. The Commanding Officer of Fiji told me that the air over Gloucester was black with planes."
********************************************************************
Phillip was among the 241 men aboard H.M.S Fiji who lost their lives that day.
He was 20 years old.
Phillip is NOT buried in this cemetery but he is COMMEMORATED on his parents headstone.
The headstone states that Phillip died on the 17th May, but all official Military Records list him as having died on the 23rd May, so l have recorded his death in line with the Military Records.
Pictured right - H.M.S Fiji.
MILITARY DETAILS
******************
WIREMAN
No.P/MX 71973
ROYAL NAVY
***************
THE SINKING OF H.M.S FIJI - TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA
*****************************************************
On 22nd May 1941 she was acting in company with the destroyers H.M.S Kandahar and H.M.S Kingston shortly after the loss of the cruiser H.M.S Gloucester.
These ships fought on and shot down one attacker and damaged two others. She finally expended all of her anti-aircraft ammunition fighting off numerous air attacks that persisted for two hours.
She was attacked and hit by several bombs from Messerschmitt Bf 109s before an aircraft of Jagdgeschwader 77 dropped a bomb close alongside to port. This blew in Fiji’s bottom plates and caused a list to port.
H.M.S Fiji lost power and came to a standstill. She was now largely defenceless, having practically exhausted her 4 inch ammunition.
She was then hit by three bombs dropped by a Junkers Ju 88.
Captain Peveril William-Powlett gave the order to abandon ship and H.M.S Fiji rolled over and sank. The destroyers dropped floats and withdrew to the south. They returned after dark to pick up 523 survivors. 241 men were killed when the ship sank to the sea floor.
On the 30th May 1941, in a letter to the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound, Admiral Cunningham wrote, "The sending back of H.M.S Gloucester and H.M.S Fiji to H.M.S Greyhound was another grave error and cost us those two ships.
They were practically out of ammunition but even had they been full up I think they would have gone. The Commanding Officer of Fiji told me that the air over Gloucester was black with planes."
********************************************************************
Phillip was among the 241 men aboard H.M.S Fiji who lost their lives that day.
He was 20 years old.
Phillip is NOT buried in this cemetery but he is COMMEMORATED on his parents headstone.
The headstone states that Phillip died on the 17th May, but all official Military Records list him as having died on the 23rd May, so l have recorded his death in line with the Military Records.
Pictured right - H.M.S Fiji.
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