Service Details
Name:
 CROSSLEY
Given Name:
 ALFRED HARVEY
Initials:
 A H
Service No:
 67627
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Saunders
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Date of Death:
 1943-03-07
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Date of Birth:
 1920-03-16
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Missing, believed drowned. Based on H.M.S. SAUNDERS, the Combined Training Centre (CTC) in the Middle East at Kabret, on the Egypt's Little Bitter Lake; launched from submarine HMS UNRIVALLED in a Folbot canoe, to carry out reconnaissance of beaches in Sicily ahead of Operation Husky. Nothing was seen of them again, despite a search for them the following night; they disappeared without trace and are assumed to have drowned.
Additional
Information:
Son of Gerald and Nell Crossley, of Durban, Natal, South Africa. Born Durban. An apprentice.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Devon
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Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 83, Column 3.

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