Ernest Edward Grimson
Enlisted in the Royal Navy on 15th September 1919, his 18th birthday for 12 years.
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Son of Francis and Florence Grimson of 51 Bevan Road, Lowestoft.
Ernest was baptised at St John's Church Lowestoft on 11th October 1901. He had one sibling, Ellen Dorothy born in 1908.
Married Ivy Louise Hook of St Margaret's Road, Lowestoft at St Margaret's Church on 1st June 1925. Ernest is listed on his marriage certificate has being a stoker on HMS Pegasus, Devonport. They had 2 children, Ernest H F born in 1926 and Patricia in 1931. In 1939 Ivy and the children where living at 76 Love Road, Lowestoft. Ivy married again in 1948, in Great Yarmouth, to Stephen Barrett.
HMS Sphinx was a minesweeper. Whilst working in the Moray Firth she was attacked by German aircraft. 49 men were lost and 46 rescued.
The only connection to Mansfield I can find is that on the CWGC site with Ivy being listed as from Mansfield, however all the census records show her as living in Lowestoft. There were however evacuees from Lowestoft in the Mansfield area, so at the time of Ernest's death she may have been living in Mansfield. On 2nd June 1940 3000 children were evacuated from Lowestoft to villages and towns in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Lowestoft became one of the most bombed towns in Britain.
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