John Edwin Lee
Pre war Royal Navy.
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Son of Walter and Betsy Ann Lee (1870-1909) nee Smith. 1911 census has him and his siblings living with his grandparents Edwin and Mary Smith. Husband of Annie Elizabeth Gladys Lee nee Pointon.
HMS Thames was reported overdue on 3 August 1940, and had probably struck a mine off Norway in late July or early August 1940. As HMS Thames was operating from Dundee with the 9th Submarine Flotilla when she was lost, her 62 crew are all commemorated on Dundee International Submarine Memorial.
26/7/1940 HMS Thames reportedly torpedoed and sank the German torpedo boat, Luchs in the North Sea. Luchs was part of the escort for the damaged German battle cruiser Gneisenau that was on passage from Trondheim, Norway to Kiel, Germany. Other ships of the escort were light cruiser Nürnberg, destroyers Paul Jacobi, Friedrich Ihn, Karl Galster and torpedo boats Iltis, Jaguar and Kondor. The counter-attack by the escort of the Gneisenau is reported to have been ineffective and it is doubtful that HMS Thames was lost as a result of it. General consensus is that HMS Thames hit a mine on her return trip.
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