Service Details
Name:
 GLENN
Given Name:
 PAUL VICTOR
Initials:
 P V
Service No:
 68906
Rank:
 Ordinary Seaman
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Barham
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Date of Death:
 1941-11-25
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys, HMS Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331. As she rolled over to port, her after magazines exploded and the ship quickly sank with the loss of over two-thirds of her crew
Additional
Information:
Son of James and Blanche Glenn; husband of Joyce I. Glenn, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.
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 58, Column 3.

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