-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Crew List

It is estimated that as many as 18,000 men served aboard the 'Mighty Hood' during the operational portion of her 21 year career. Unfortunately, there is no surviving official single listing of ALL men who served in her. Here you will find our attempt at creating such a listing. We are using the few, fragmentary crew lists known to exist, Navy Lists, various official reports, public records, and most importantly of all, inputs from the families of former crew.

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Roy Foster

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Date of birth: 16th May 1920
Place of birth: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Previous occupation: Schoolboy
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Midshipman
Joined Hood: 1939
Left Hood: 1940








Biographical Information: Roy Foster entered the Royal Navy as a Special Entry Cadet in 1937, and the photograph shows him in his cadet uniform. After leaving Hood, Roy commanded the Jaba, a small Dutch coastal vessel called a schuyt, which helped to evacuate troops from Cherbourg and civilians from Guernsey at the time of Dunkirk. Later, Roy served in HM submarines Torbay and Turbulent in the Mediterranean, in the frigate HMS Stockham and in the fast minelayer Manxman. Post war, Roy served as an RAN exchange officer, then in the cruisers Euryalus and Bermuda and in the aircraft carrier Ocean. Roy left the Royal Navy in 1958, and returned to his home town of Newcastle, where he worked, successively, as managing director of a laundry business and as a facilities manager. He moved south to Twickenham on retirement in 1985, and died in 2014

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Memorials
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Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)