Arthur Joseph Daft
He was a window cleaner.
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He was the son of Arthur Joseph and Edna Louisa Daft of Nottingham and the husband of Edna Daft. Their son Robert was born in 1939. In 1939, they lived at 11, Lavender Street, Dame Agnes Street, St Ann's Nottingham.
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL 72, 1
HM Submarine P615
HMS P 615 (Lt. Charles Walderne St Clair Lambert, DSC and Bar, RN) was sunk on 18 April 1943. HMS P-615 left Freetown under escort by minesweeper HMS MMS-107 on passage to the South Atlantic Command to provide ASW escort training. During the night they lost contact but found each other the next morning. U-123 spotted both vessels at 0344 and missed them with two spreads of two torpedoes at 05.34 & 06.47. One of the torpedo tracks was sighted by the escort, but was put down to a porpoise.
At 11.01, a merchant vessel was sighted and at 11.53 the U-boat fired one torpedo at the minesweeper on station about 300 yards off the submarine’s starboard quarter, but missed. At 11.54, a spread of two torpedoes was fired at the submarine, which was hit by one of them on the starboard side, exploded and sank immediately about 100 miles SW of Freetown. All 46 crew were lost including Stoker 1st Class Arthur Daft from Nottingham.
U-123 then torpedoed at 12.39 hours Empire Bruce and left the area after sinking her with two torpedoes. The minesweeper picked up the survivors from the merchantman and returned to Freetown. (wrecksite.eu)
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