HMT Lord Wakefield
 The Lord Wakefield was an anti submarine trawler (Hull Trawler) which was lost on 29th July 1944 sunk by german aircraft off Omaha Beach, France 23 days after D Day. Loss of 34 crew. A recent tv programme (July 2014) showed a team doing a sonar survey of the normandy beaches and they identified over 500 different objects on the sea bed. Included in the images, and was dived on, is a sunken HM Trawler. This is marked, in error, as Dragon, a polish destroyer, it is definitely an HMT, pssible Lord Wakefield. http://uboat.net/allies/
The Crew:
ALLAN, Sidney S, Cook, RNPS, LT/MX 100451, MPK BALLINGER, Brian, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 570118, killed BAXTER, John, Skipper, RNR, MPK BLACKMORE, Arthur E, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 383532, MPK BRAND, Frederick H, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 241199, MPK CARTER, Cyril L, Ordinary Signalman, RNPS, LT/JX 662225, MPK CHADWICK, Gilbert, Steward, RNPS, LT/LX 30624, MPK CHALMERS, Robert W, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 180332, MPK CRAIG, George, Ty/Skipper, RNR, MPK DEWICK, Royston R, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 534720, MPK DODD, Henry E, Skipper Lieutenant, RNR, MPK EDWARDS, Alfred, Leading Seaman (Pens), C/J 42225, MPK FAIRHURST, John, Able Seaman, P/JX 563427, MPK GOLDMAN, Harry, Leading Steward, RNPS, LT/LX 30087, MPK HEDLEY, Norman, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 403602, MPK HENDERSON, Alexander, 2nd Hand, RNR (PS), LT/X 7802 C, MPK JEPSON, Joseph H V, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 179498, MPK LARSON, Stanley H, Petty Officer Cook, RNPS, LT/MX 87244, MPK LYMAN, Gordon B, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 223321, MPK MORRISON, William, Chief Engineman, RNR (PS), LT/317 EU, MPK NAYLOR, John, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 207502, MPK PARKER, Thomas, Leading Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 218317, MPK PHEBY, Henry C, Ordinary Telegraphist, RNPS, LT/JX 359334, MPK RIDDELL, David, Ordinary Telegraphist, RNPS, LT/JX 404471, MPK RINGROSE, Alfred, Stoker 1c, RNPS, LT/KX 160934, MPK ROBERTSON, Edward, Stoker 1c, RNPS, LT/KX 115132, MPK SEDDON, Leslie, Able Seaman, P/JX 563423, MPK STONE, Thomas P, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 221597, MPK TAIT, George S, Engineman, RNPS, LT/KX 103140, MPK WATSON, Reginald D, Seaman, RNPS, LT/JX 406711, killed WELLS, Anthony, Ordinary Telegraphist, RNPS, LT/JX 325243, MPK WHAMOND, Alfred, Stoker, RNPS, LT/KX 114625, MPK WILLIAMSON, James S, Engineman, RNPS, LT/KX 108389, MPK WILSON, Harold, Skipper, RNR, MPK
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this tells us he was son of Edward & Margaret Seddon of New Springs Lancashire |