Charles Leslie Riches

A Seaman with H.M. Trawler Laertes, Charles died on 25th of July 1942 aged 18. 

Charles was born at Lowestoft on 24 September 1923. By 1939 his father had died, and his family lived at 1 Factory Street and Charles was a fisherman.   

Charles was serving on the Laertes, off Sierra Leone, when it was sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine U-201. Nineteen crew, including Charles, were killed.