Service Details
Name:
 MAPLESDEN
Given Name:
 WILFRED GEORGE WALTER
Initials:
 W G W
Rank:
 Midshipman
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Reserve
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Barham
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Date of Death:
 1941-11-25
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Age:
 18
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
Additional
Information:
Son of Walter Sidney and Margaret Louise Maplesden, of Springs, Transvaal, South Africa. Ex-Cadet of the South African Training Ship General Botha
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Hampshire
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Cemetery:
 PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 60, Column 1.

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