Cyril Keeton
In 1921 he was working for Sanderson & Robinson Iron Works, Sheepbridge Lane, Mansfield as a moulder.
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Son of Fredrick and Grace Keeton of 127 Unwin Road, Sutton in Ashfield. Fredrick died in 1944 and Grace in 1932.
Siblings: Arthur (1890), George (1896), Byron (1897), Alice (1902), Clara (1904), Ellen (1906) and Margaret (1910).
Married Ivy Brown in Portchester in 1931. They had 2 daughters Sylvia in 1935 and Doreen in 1937. In his will Cyril left Ivy £852 19s 5d, she was living at 53 Myrtle Avenue Portchester.
Ivy died in 1978 and at that time her address was 45 Westfield Lane, Mansfield.
HMS Volage was a destroyer. She was only in service from 26th May 1944 and during the war served in the Arctic and Indian oceans.
On 22nd October 1946 Volage and HMS Saumarez (destroyer) were both badly damaged by mines laid in the North Corfu Channel.
Saumarez hit a mine at 14:53 hrs, she was damaged and began to drift, on fire and spilling fuel. Volage went to assist and take Saumarez in tow. She began to tow Saumarez on the 2nd attempt at 15:30 hrs. At 16:06 hrs Volage hit a second mine,
"in a split second 40 feet of the destroyer, from the fore peak to just in front of 'A' gun turret had vanished. Mess decks, store rooms, the paint shop, the cable locker including anchors, literally dissolved in the air" (Leggett- The Corfu Channel Incident)
Saumarez lost 36 men 25 of whom were missing persumed killed and Volage lost 8 men of whom 7 missing and persumed killed.
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