In Memory Of
CLAYTON, FREDERICK HOWARD
Service Details
Age:
29
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
68102
Rank:
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
Unit:
H.M.S. Hermes
Regiment:
South African Naval Forces
Date of Death:
1942-04-09
Cause of Death:
Attacked by carrier-borne aircraft from a Japanese force of three battleships and five carriers which had entered the Bay of Bengal a week before. Around seventy bombers were sent to dispatch the Hermes which sank within ten minutes.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 74, Column 2.
Cemetery:
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
Devon
Country:
United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Alfred Howard and Jessie Clayton, of Durban, Natal, South Africa; husband of Beryl Wilfred Freda Clayton, of Durban.
