Reginald Jabez Heath
Service number
C/JX 352406
Military unit
HMS Daffodil Royal Navy
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
18 Mar 1945 (21 years old)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
Lived at 422 Aspley Lane, Aspley [w.1946]. Son of Joseph Raymond & Mary Eleanor Heath of, 11 Marlborough St. [e.1939 & 45], 422 Aspley Lane [e.1946]. He had been in the Royal Navy for about three years [n.e.p.28.6.1945].
Military history
HMS Daffodil
HMS Daffodil was a converted TF3 Train ferry built in 1917. She was converted into a Landing Ship Sternchute (LSS) and used as an allied transport for D Day and beyond. On March 17 1945, at 11pm she struck a mine just north of the harbour wall at Dieppe and sank the next day at 5am. Nine men, including Able Seaman Reginald Heath from Aspley and Leading Cook Stanley Newton from Nottingham, lost their lives.
Extra information
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Photographs
Reginald Jabez Heath
Nottingham Evening Post 28/6/1945
Harry Heath M.M. brother of Reginald
Nottingham Evening Post 28/6/1945