Identity
Person No.
18893
Service No.
68543
Last Name
First Name
Ronald Wykeham
Initials
R W
Date of Birth
Unknown
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Age at Death
32
Military Service
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Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,309
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys, HMS Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331. As she rolled over to port, her after magazines exploded and the ship quickly sank with the loss of over two-thirds of her crew
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Son of Reginald William and Mary Louisa Noakes, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
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