In Memory Of

CROSSLEY, ALFRED HARVEY

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1920-03-16
Service No:
 67627
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:
 H.M.S. Saunders
Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
Date of Death:
 1943-03-07
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 83, Column 3.
Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Devon
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Gerald and Nell Crossley, of Durban, Natal, South Africa. Born Durban. An apprentice.