Samuel Turner Buckland
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Son of Henry and Betsy Ann Buckland of 30 Booth Crescent Mansfield.
Samuel was baptised at St Barnabas Church, Pleasley Hill on 3rd June 1917 as the family were living at 24 Clarence Street, Pleasley Hill at the time of Samuel's birth.
He had several siblings: Evelyn (1910), Frank (1911) Henry (1913) Marion (1921) and Dennis (1925).
In 1940 Samuel married Joyce Russell of Radmanthwaite Farm, Pleasley. She married twice more, John Vardy in 1946 and Stanley Thomson in 1965.
HMS Avenger: was an aircraft carrier providing support for convoys in the Meditteranean Sea (Operation Torch).
Between 10th of November and 12th of November 1942 she was having engine issues and was making her way back to Gibralter when they were torpedoed on the 15th November by U-155 under the command of Kapitanleutnant Adolf Piening. Despite being hit by only one topedoe she rapidly sank, with only 12 crew members out of a complement of 555 surviving.
Turner was his mother's maiden name.
Remembered on the Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3 panel 4.
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