DUNNE, Patrick Lewis

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Petty Officer
HMS Hood - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Patrick was born on the 9th of May 1908 in Tenby, Wales to Patrick & Mary Ann DUNNE who were living at St. Dominic Cottage in Carisbrooke around the time of Patrick’s death. In 1940 at St. Thomas’ Catholic Church in Pyle Street, Newport Patrick married Doris Myrtle THOMPSON who was living with her mother at 20 St. John’s Road in Newport while Patrick was away at sea.

Patrick was a Petty Officer, with 10-years-service, aboard the Battlecruiser HMS Hood, when on the 24 of May 1941 she intercepted Bismarck & her consort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, in the Denmark Strait between Greenland & Iceland. A fierce gun battle took place, The Hood was badly damaged & sank stern first with 1,418 men aboard, only three survived. At 33, Patrick’s body was never recovered & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial together with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Patrick is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

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.