Arthur Robert Blades
Service number
LT/JX 179314
Military unit
HM Trawler Bredon Royal Naval Patrol Service
Address
8 Welbeck Avenue, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Date of birth
14 Jul 1919
Date of death
08 Feb 1943 (23 years old)
Place of birth
2 Zion Place, Eldon St, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
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Military history
H.M. Trawler Bredon (T 223) a Hill class naval trawler that served as an anti-submarine escort trawler during the Second World War. At 07.57 hours, U-521 fired a torpedo spread at convoy Gibr-2 and observed two columns of fire on a tanker, which sank in two minutes. Kapitänleutnant Bargsten claimed one tanker and one corvette sunk and another ship damaged. In fact, only HMS Bredon was hit by the spread and sank immediately. The commander, two officers and 40 ratings were lost.
Extra information
U-521 Sunk on 2 June 1943 in the North Atlantic north-east of Norfolk, in position 37.43N, 73.16W, by depth charges from the US patrol craft USS PC-565. 51 dead and 1 survivor.
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