-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Hood Rolls of Honour
Memorials to Men Lost in the sinking

In Remembrance of
Roy Thomas Richard Jones

Roy was born in Rockford Hospital, Southend-on-Sea, Essex on 1st August 1924. He was the second of three children (he has an older sister, Gwendoline and a younger brother, Derrick) born to Thomas and Ethel Jones.

Roy attended Leigh North Street Junior Mixed School and later, Fairfax Senior Mixed School in Westeliff-on-Sea. Whilst attending school at Fairfax Senior Mixed, he was listed as their top pupil, having received First Class Honours. He was also very good at sport and played on the school football team (which was fitting as his father had been a professional footballer).

Roy entered Boys Service after the outbreak of war. He subsequently underwent several months of training, first his seamanship training at H.M.S. St. George, Isle of Man and subsequently gunnery training at H.M.S. Ganges in Ipswich, Suffolk . He left Ganges qualified as a Boy Gunner 1st Class. His first and only operational assignment was H.M.S. Hood.

He is remembered as being a sensible lad with a dry sense of humour. A lad, though one of the youngest crewmembers aboard Hood, was seriously committed to naval tradition and to his duties. He was posthumously awarded the Atlantic Start, 1939-45 Star and 1939-45 War Medal. He was 16 years old at the time of his loss.

His family states "He lived his dream starting his lifetime in the Royal navy and having the incredible luck to be chosen to serve in H.M.S. Hood- the pride of the nation. Fate decreed otherwise."

Hood Chapel, Church of St. John the Baptist, Boldre, Hampshire, England

Photos of the memorial

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Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Southsea, Hampshire, England

Photos of the memorial



The part of the memorial in which the Hood casualty names can be found.
(Panels 45 to 61)





Roy's name is in Column 3 of Panel 51.





Detail of Roy's name.

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