Stanley Edward Murgatroyd
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Service Number: J114755
Joined Hood: 26th November 1926
Left Hood: 28th August 1927
Biographical Information:
Stanley was born in 1909. He joined the Navy in 1926, first serving in H.M.S. Impregnable as a Boy 2nd Class. He transferred to Hood later in the year as a Boy 1st Class. During his time in Hood, he was a member of the success seaman's cutter team. He shortly reached the rank of Ordinary Seaman and was transferred to his next assignment.
Stanley would later serve in the Second World War. He ultiumately reached the rank of Petty Officer while serving aboard the submarine H.M.S. Thames. He sadly died in the sinking of the submarine on 03 August 1940.
Additional Photographs
None at this time.
No known memorials
Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
His niece, Susan Brown (information, Feb 2005)