PHILLIPS, Raymond Thomas

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: CWGC

Ordinary Seaman
HMS Hood - Battlecruiser
Royal Navy

Raymond was born on the 27th February 1920 in Newport to Lancelot & Rose. In 1940 he married Phyllis CORNER in Malling, Kent.

Raymond 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 older brother Lancelot. Only three men survived.

Raymond is commemorated by the Commission on the Porstmouth Naval Memorial with nearly 15,000 Second World War shipmates. Raymond was 21.

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.