Luther Wigfield
Service number
P/KX86433
Military unit
HMS Vortigern Royal Navy
Address
70 Westfield Lane, Mansfield
Date of birth
24 May 1917
Date of death
15 Mar 1942 (24 years old)
Place of birth
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
Son of William Henry and Elizabeth of 70 Westfield Lane, Mansfield.
Siblings: Wilfred born in 1913 and Desmond born in 1920.
He married Jessie May Kerr in 1940. In 1939 she was living with her parents at 3 Patterson Place, Mansfield and was working in a tin box factory. She married again in 1949 to Ralph King.
Military history
HMS Vortigern: a Destroyer.
On the 15th March 1942 she was on convoy protection duty off the Norfolk coast when they were attacked by E Boats. She was hit by torpedoes from E boat S-104. 110 lives were lost and 14 survived. The Cromer lifeboat "H F Bailey III" recovered 11 bodies from the sea.
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