John Christopher Kettle Turner
He was a tobacco hand in 1939.
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He was the son of Frank and Ethel May Turner and the brother of Jessie and James Turner. In 1939, they lived at 26, Clapham Street, Radford, Nottingham. John Turner and Alice Scott were married at Nottingham a few weeks before his death at sea.
Name Robert L. Holt
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage 2,918 tons
Completed 1926 - Smith´s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank, Middlesbrough
Owner John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd, Liverpool
Homeport Liverpool
Date of attack 3 Jul 1941 Nationality: British
Fate Sunk by U-69 (Jost Metzler)
Position 24° 15'N, 20° 00'W - Grid DH 5544
Complement 56 (56 dead - no survivors)
Convoy OB-337 (dispersed)
Route Liverpool - Warri
Cargo Ballast
History
Notes on event
At 04.36 hours on 3 July 1941, U-69 began a gun duel with the armed Robert L. Holt (Master John Alexander Kendall) northwest of the Canary Islands. She had been the ship of commodore Vice-Admiral N.A. Wodehouse, CB, RN from the dispersed convoy OB-337. The ship sank at 06.50 hours after the U-boat had fired 102 high explosive rounds and 34 incendiary rounds from the deck gun, 220 rounds from the 20mm gun and 400 rounds with the MG34. The master, the commodore, 41 crew members, eight gunners and five naval staff members were lost. (Courtesy of uboat.net)
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