HDML 1380

McGruer, Clynder, Scotland 16/9/43

Known Crew

  • TSLt W Leslie RNVR HDML 1380 3/9/43 TSLt 7/11/43 HDML 1297 1944 ML 561 9/3/45
  • Lt Donald Cameron MacDonald RNVR TSLt HMS Attack small craft 15/4/42 TLt RNVR 12/2/43 Commanding Officer HDML 1380 3/9/43. Died 01/05/1944, aged 29, when HDML1380 foundered in heavy weather after both engines were put out of action. Son of Angus and Mary Macdonald, of Glasgow; husband of Lorna Macdonald (nee Jackson), of Glasgow. M.A
  • TSLt Douglas Colin Findlay RNZNVR TASLt ML 862 3/44 HDML 1380 2/5/44 TSLt 7/7/44 ML 866 27/6/44 Wind up of the war in Europe MID
  • SLt Norman Charles Oliver Herbert RNVR TASLt 7/1/44 HDML 1380. Died 01/05/1944, aged 20, when HDML1380 foundered in heavy weather after both engines were put out of action. Son of Charles Abbott Herbert and Sarah Herbert
  • Sea Albert John Dronfield LT/JX 382618. Died 01/05/1944, aged 21, when HDML1380 foundered in heavy weather after both engines were put out of action, in the Aegean. Son of John and Ada Dronfield, of Eyam, Derbyshire
  • Sea Dennis William Galliott LT/JX 532218. Died of wounds 02/05/1944, the day after HDML 1380 foundered in the Aegean. Son of Frederick Percy and Rose Galliott, of Yeovil, Somerset
  • Sto Bernard Robinson LT/KX 139465 HDML 1380 Died of wounds 02/05/1944, the day after HDML 1380 foundered in the Aegean
  • Tel Donald Knight LT/JX 298247 HDML 1380. Died 01/05/1944, aged 21, when HDML1380 foundered in heavy weather after both engines were put out of action. Son of William Walter and Evelyn Knight, of Coventry
  • Cook William H Galloway LT/MX577821. Died 01/05/1944, aged 20, when HDML 1380 foundered in the Aegean. Son of William and Annie H. Galloway, of Dalkeith, Midlothian

Wartime Activities

  • 1/5/44 Lost in the Aegean.
  • Vessel foundered in heavy weather after both engines were put out of action.
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