WILKINSON, Edward Arthur



P/JX 140435, Able Seaman, Edward Arthur WILKINSON
Aged 22
medals not known
Royal Navy, H.M.S. Grenville
Killed in Action on Friday 19th January 1940

Born in Eton, Buckinghamshire (Eton-Q3 1917 3A:1302) to Arthur James and Kathleen Winifred WILKINSON (née WHYATT). His entry in CWGC gives his parents as living in Newmarket.

They have not been found in the Newmarket directory for 1936, nor the 1939 register.


He lost his life when the HMS Grenville, a G Class destroyer was sunk by an enemy mine at 12:50 on 19 January 1940. They were operating out of Harwich with six other ships of the Flotilla, and were returning from an operation off the Dutch coast in calm weather, when they struck a mine in the Thames estuary, 23 nautical miles east of the Kentish Knock lightvessel in position 51º39'N, 02º17'E, on a minefield laid by the German destroyers. 77 of the 195 man crew died


H.M.S. Grenville


No known grave - Edward is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial - Ref; panel 39. column 3

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