Harold Victor Davis
He was a slater and fitter.
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He was the son of Douglas John and Harriett Davis and the brother of Leslie, Doris, Kenneth and Joan Davis of 24, St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham.
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL 62, 1.
HMS Dorsetshire
HMS Dorsetshire was a County-class heavy cruiser. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she was transferred from the China Station to the South Atlantic. There, she reinforced the search for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. In late May 1941, Dorsetshire took part in the final engagement with the Bismarck, which ended when Dorsetshire was ordered to close and torpedo the crippled German battleship. She joined searches for the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in August and the auxiliary cruiser Atlantis in November.
In March 1942, Dorsetshire was transferred to the Eastern Fleet to support British forces in the recently opened Pacific Theatre of the war. At the end of the month, the Japanese fast carrier task force – the - launched the Indian Ocean raid. On 5 April, Japanese aircraft spotted Dorsetshire and her sister Cornwall while en route to Colombo. A force of dive bombers then attacked the two ships and sank them. More than 1,100 men were rescued the next day, out of a combined crew of over 1,500. Stoker Harold Davis and Able Seaman Frank Sibert, both from Nottingham, were among those lost from HMS Dorsetshire. (Wikipedia)
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