Ashtead War Memorials - Lieutenant Anthony Douglas Sinclair DSC RN, HM Submarine Sickle

Early/Mid June 1944 - HM Submarine SICKLE was on patrol in the Aegean but failed to return to Malta when recalled on the 14th June, and was presumed lost on mines.
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsBritishSubs2.htm

On 12 June she spotted a convoy in the approach to Steno Pass. The convoy suspected the presence of a submarine and dropped two depth charges. Shortly after this, contact with Sickle was lost, and it is thought that she had probably struck a mine in the Kythera Channel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sickle_(P224)

Submarine SICKLE (Lt J R Drummond DSO, DSC) was lost, probably on a minefield in the Kithera Channel around this date. A surviving rating had been rescued earlier on the 4th when he was blown overboard during an action with German auxiliary patrol vessels GA.76 and GA.91. Lt Drummond, Lt AD Sinclair DSC, Ty/Warrant Engineer G Francis, Ty/Lt PD Goodman RNVR, Ty/Lt PB Jakeman RNVR, Ty/Lt VP Walker RNVR and the entire crew of forty two ratings on board were lost.
http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4400-60ALL.htm

The loss of HMS Sickle was reported in The Times of July 13 1944.
http://callisto.ggsrv.com/doc/WrapPDF=LT=0FFO-1944-JUL13-004-F.pdf

He was the son of John Douglas Sinclair, and of Margaret Norah Sinclair, of Ashtead, Surrey. His date of death is taken to be 18/06/1944.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 81, Column 1 of the PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL.
CWGC record: http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2497002

His award of the Distinguished Service Cross was Gazetted on 27 July 1943.
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36106/supplements/3370

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