GUSTAR, Leonard

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Chief Engine Room Artificer
HMS Exmouth
Royal Navy

Leonard was born on the 19th of November 1904 in Newport to Frederick Harry & Elizabeth Alma (nee MOREY) GUSTAR of 4 Caesars Road, Newport. 1936 in Portsmouth he married Ell YELF & they lived at 83 Trafalgar Road in Newport.

Exmouth was escorting the merchant Cyprian Prince on the 21st of January 1940 when she was spotted by the German submarine U-22 & torpedoed at 0535. She sank with the loss of all hands.

Leonard, aged 36, was never recovered & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial alongside nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Leonard 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.