LOCK, Thomas William

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Able Seaman
HMS Clacton - Bangor Class Minesweeper
Royal Navy

Thomas was born 1901 in Newport the youngest son of Thomas William & Margaret (nee MACDONALD) LOCK who were living at 6 Barton Road, Newport around the time of Thomas’ death. In 1942 at St. John’s Church in Newport, he married Clara Adelaide Perkins BRAMBLE & they lived at 39 Castle Road in Newport. Thomas had served 24 years in the Royal Navy.

Clacton was in the Mediterranean, off the east coast of Corsica, on passage from La Maddalena to Bastia. On the 31st of December 1943 at 0832 she struck a mine & sank immediately. Three officers & 29 ratings were killed, with the survivors being rescued by HMS Polruan. Thomas, aged 44, was one of those lost & his body was never recovered & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to those Lost at Sea together with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Thomas 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.