BARTON, Kenneth Charles Frank

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Petty Officer
HMS Hood - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Kenneth was born 1911 in Newport to Frank Charles & Elsie May (nee CROAD) BARTON of 'Brookside', Wilver Road in Newport. In 1938 the family were living at 33 Hearn Street, also in Newport.

Kenneth, aged 30, was a Petty Officer aboard the Battlecruiser HMS Hood, when on the 24th of May 1941 she intercepted the German warship Bismarck & her consort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, in the Denmark Straight between Greenland & Iceland. A fierce gun battle took place & the Hood was badly damaged sinking stern first. 1,418 men were lost, including Kenneth, with only three survivours.

Kenneth is commemorated by the Commission on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Kenneth is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.