NEVETT, Arthur

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Able Seaman
HMS Dunedin - D Class Light Cruiser
Royal Navy

Arthur was born 1923 in Newport to Arthur Leslie & Cynthia Beatrice (nee BARTLETT) NEVETT. His father predeceased him being Killed in Action aboard HMS Hood.

The Dunedin was sunk at 1526 on the 24th of November 1941 in the Central Atlantic east of St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil by 2 torpedoes from the German submarine U-124. Only 67 men survived out of a crew of 486. Arthur, aged 19, 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.

Arthur is also remembered on the Ryde 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.