GREEN, Harry Walter

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Able Seaman
HMS Acasta
Royal Navy

Harry was born 1910 in Newport the eldest son of Harry & Margaret Mary (nee PEARSON) GREEN who were living at 26 Clifford Street around the time of Harry’s death.

Harry had been in the Navy some 15 years before his death. He was Lost at Sea on the 8th of June 1940 when his ship was sunk during the evacuation of personnel from Narvik with the loss of 161 crew. She was ‘making smoke’ in an attempt to protect the carrier HMS Glorious when she went down. His body was never recovered & so Harry, aged 30, is commemorated by the Commission on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to the missing together with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Harry 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.