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Radio Officer

Denys Albert Tagg

Service number Unknown
Military unit SS Stanbrook (London) Merchant Navy
Address Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death 18 Nov 1939 (18 years old)
Place of birth Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

He was the son of Albert Ernest and Ada Alice Tagg of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. In 1921, they lived at 14, Welbeck Street, Sutton in Ashfield,Nottinghamshire with Ada's parents Charles and Elizabeth Done.

Military history

SS Stanbrook was a British cargo steamship. She was launched in 1909 as Lancer, and was renamed Stanbrook in 1937. She was a blockade runner in the Spanish Civil War, in which she survived a number of Nationalist air attacks. One of these sank her in August 1938, but she was raised and repaired. In March 1939 she was one of the last blockade runners to leave Republican-held Spain before it fell to the Nationalist faction. In November 1939 a German U-boat sank Stanbrook with all hands in the North Sea.

For a full account of SS Stanbrook's heroic actions, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Stanbrook

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