BUCKETT, Wallace

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Petty Officer Steward
HMS Manchester - Light Cruiser
Royal Navy

Wallace was born on the 5th of August 1913 in Newport to Wallace & Emily Elizabeth (nee JOLLIFFE) BUCKETT. He married Hilda TOOGOOD in 1938 at the Methodist Chapel, Upper Green Road, St Helens on the Island.

Wallace & Hilda where recorded in the 1939 Roll as living at 118 St Augustus Road, Portsmouth in Hampshire.

Wallace was a Petty Officer Steward aboard the Light Cruise HMS Manchester when, on the 23rd June 1941 she came under sustained air attacks & was hit on starboard side aft in boiler room by torpedo.

The extent of damage necessitated return on one shaft to Gibraltar with escort by HM Destroyers Avon Vale, Vidette, Vimy & Wishart.  26 crew killed, including 27-year-old Wallace, who was buried at sea, & is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial with nearly 15,000 Second World War shipmates.

Wallace is also remembered on the St. Helens 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.