Identity
Person No.
12116
Service No.
67296
Last Name
First Name
Roy
Initials
R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Attacked by carrier-borne aircraft from a Japanese force of three battleships and five carriers which had entered the Bay of Bengal a week before. Around seventy bombers were sent to dispatch the Hermes which sank within ten minutes
Military Service
Branch
Navy
Rank
Able Seaman
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of Peter William and Evelyn Elizabeth Keytel. Commemoration stone in East London (Cambridge) Cemetery
Citations
Unknown
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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samilhistory.com
open source ↗
samilhistory.com Remembrance / Peter Dickens SAN WW2 honour roll
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