Service Details
Name:
 LINFIELD
Given Name:
 FREDERICK ROY
Initials:
 F R
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Reserve (Patrol Service)
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Sotra
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Date of Death:
 1942-01-29
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Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Torpedoed by Uboat U-431 attacked the convoy TA-21 off Bardia and hit HMS Sotra with one torpedo. The vessel exploded and sank with the loss of the crew, six of them Norwegian
Additional
Information:
Son of Fredrick William and Mary Linfield; husband of Alice Cameron Minter Linfield, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Suffolk
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Cemetery:
 LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 8, Column 1.

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