George William Thomas Daines

A Stoker 1st Class with H.M.S. Pintail, George died on 10th of June 1941 at the age of 24. 

George was born at Lowestoft on 10 January 1917, a son of George William and Hilda Honor Daines. By 1939 his family were living at 28 Kimberley Road, Lowestoft.

George was serving on H.M.S. Pintail when the ship was escorting a convey thirty miles off the Humber Estuary. The ship went to the assistance of the S. S. Royal Scot which had just been blown up by an acoustic mine. The Pintail also detonated an acoustic mine and blew up. Fifty-five men, including George, were killed, and twenty-two rescued.