Oscar Stephen Verity Waterlow |
![]() | Date of Birth: | Not known | Place of Birth: | Strood | Former Occupation: | Not known | Service: | Royal Navy |
Service No.: | Not known | |
Previous Service No.: | Not known | |
Rank in Hood (highest): | Lieutenant | |
Period in Hood: | 1937 - 1938. | |
Biographical Information: | Following his time in HMS Hood, Lieutenant Oscar Stephen Verity Waterlow, Royal Navy, went on to serve as a submariner. He was mentioned in despatches in May 1942 for three Mediterranean War Patrols, during the period September-November 1941, aboard the submarine Tetrarch. Lt Waterlow was awarded the D.S.C. in May 1942 for five Mediterranean War Patrols during the period August-December 1941, aboard the submarine Talisman. The Talisman was sunk with all hands, possibly by a mine, between Gibraltar and Malta on 16 September 1942. Lieutenant Waterlow was officially listed as having died on 18 September. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial - he was the son of Ernest Oscar and Eva Minnie Waterlow of Engadine, Walton-on-Thames, and the brother of Signalman Antony Adrian Waterlow (q.v.) who lost his life in HMS Hood’s sinking Original M.I.D. Certificate named to ‘Lieutenant Oscar Stephen Verity Waterlow, R.N., H.M.S. Talisman’. |