PHILLIPS, Lancelot Jack

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Ordinary Seaman
HMS Hood - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Lancelot was born on the 26th of October 1912 in Newport to Lancelot & Rose. In 1939 he married Gladys BAILY in Malling, Kent.

Lancelot was an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Battlecruiser HMS Hood, when on the 24 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, including his younger brother Raymond. Only three men survived.

Lancelot is commemorated by the Commission on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial with nearly 15,000 Second World War shipmates. Lancelot was 26.

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.