Leslie John Westoby
A Chief Petty Officer with H.M.S. Ibis, Leslie died on 10th of November 1942 aged 29.
Leslie was born at Lowestoft on 22 July 1913, a son of John E. and Kathleen F. Westoby. In 1939 his parents lived at 60 Kirkley Park Road.
On 10 April 1937 Leslie married Vera Beatrice Annie Grice at Saint Margaret’s Church. Leslie was serving with the Royal Navy and based at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, and Vera was a clerk living at 57 Reeve Street. In 1939 their home was at 49 Church Road. Vera remarried in 1950.
A career sailor Leslie was serving on the sloop H.M.S. Ibis in 1942. On 10 November, north of Algiers, French Algeria, the Ibis was hit by an airborne torpedo fired from an Italian aircraft and capsized. Leslie was one of 109 people lost with the Ibis.
Leslie’s brother-in-law, Philip Goode, served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and died in 1941.
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Leslie Westoby
49
Church Road
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
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