Ashtead War Memorials - WWII
Lieutenant Anthony Douglas Sinclair DSC RN
HM Submarine Sickle
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A record of the service of HM
Submarine Sickle (P224) is provoded on uboat.net
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3442.html
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 Thursday, July 13 1944, page 4:
SUBMARINE SICKLE LOST
The Board of Admiralty regrets to announce that the submarine HMS Sickle (Lieutenant JR Drummond DSO DSC RN) has been lost. The next-of-kin of casualties have been informed
The Sickle had an outstanding war record. Most of her career was spent in the Mediterranean, and she had sunk or damaged some 11,000 tons. During one of her recent patrols the Sickle severely damaged, if not destroyed, a radio station. The bombardment of the radio station was carried out in broad daylight at only about 1,000 yards distance. Enemy shore defences engaged the Sickle, but it was not until Lieutenant Drummond and three ratings had been wounded that he decided to make good his escape. The Sickle was hit 17 times, but little damage was sustained.
Anthony Douglas Sinclair 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
. He was aged 21.
His award of the Distinguished Service Cross was Gazetted
on 27 July 1943.
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36106/supplements/3370
Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976, for
Anthony Douglas Sinclair
26.6.1945
SINCLAIR - Previously reported missing, now believed to have
lost his life on June 18, 1944, in HM Submarine Sickle,
LIEUTENANT ANTHONY DOUGLAS SINCLAIR, DSC, RN, aged 21,
beloved only son of the late John Douglas Sinclair, and
Margaret Crompton of High Tree, Ashtead, Surrey.
His Probate Record, 1946:
SINCLAIR Anthony Douglas of High Tree Park-lane Ashtead Surrey died 18 June on war service Adminstration Llandudno 26 February to Margaret Norah Crompton (wife of Geoffery Roger Crompton).
His birth was registered Q3 1922 Epsom District 2a 61, mother's maiden name Mair.
His parents marriage was registered Q3 1921 Kensington District, London 1a 310, John D Sinclair to Margaret N Mair
His father died in 1936:
SINCLAIR John Douglas of Highlands Farm Leatherhead Surrey died 30 January 1936 Probate 26 March to Margaret Norah Sinclair widow and Robert Fergus Sinclair and Gordon Stewart Sinclair farmers.
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