Frederick George Strudley

A Petty Officer with H.M.S. Puckeridge, Frederick died on 13th of December 1941 at the age of 21. 

Frederick was born at Henley, Oxfordshire, on 24 June 1920, a son of Charles Owen Strudley and Elsie May Blythe Strudley of Marlow Lock House, Mill Road, Marlow. 

Frederick married Peggy Irene Edith Jackson in 1941, this was registered in the Wycombe district. Commonwealth War Graves records show that Peggy lived at Lowestoft.

Frederick served on H.M.S. Puckeridge. On 6 September 1943, forty miles east of Gibraltar, the Puckeridge was sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine U-617. There were 62 men killed and 129, including Frederick, rescued. As the survivor of ship being sunk Frederick would have been given a shore posting for the next three months, which was standard navy practice in World War Two. 

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