Albert Wyatt
Attended Blidworth Council School
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Son of Arthur and May Evelyn Wyatt. In 1921 they were living in Ilkeston with their children, William Arthur (1914), Evelyn (1915), Albert (1917), Ethel (1919). They had another 5 children, Margaret (1921), Walter S (1924), Henrietta (1925), Derrick (1927) and Raymond in 1929.
May Evelyn died in 1930 and Arthur married Edith Emily Laycock nee Dalton, in 1931. Edith was possibly May Evelyn's sister. She had been married to Henry Laycock and she had several children with Henry, Sam (1911), Nelly (1917), Herbert (1921) and Ernest (1925).
In 1939 Arthur and Edith were living at 22 Appleton Road, Blidworth with children from both marriages.
HMS Afridi: She was evacuating British soldiers from the Vamsos Campaign in Norway. She had successfully picked up troops from Namsenfjorden on the 1st of May but due to fog she couldn't leave until the 2nd of May. The German forces had spotted the evacuation convoy leaving Namsos and launched an attack using Stuka Dive Bombers. Two bombs hit, one below the bridge and one hit the boiler room. Most of the troops they had picked up had been transferred to the Imperial and the Griffin but 52 crew members were lost when she capsized and sank.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 17/5/1940: Blidworth Casualty. Missing Believed Dead.
Able seaman Albert Wyatt of HMS Afridi. Attended Blidworth Council School until 1931 and was 22 years old.
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