George William Hellon

A Petty Officer Stoker with H.M.S. Blean, George died on 11th of December 1942 at the age of 30. 

George was born at Whitehaven on 5 June 1913, a son of Joseph Holmes and Nessie Hellon.

George married Gertrude Irene Woolmer at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 27 July 1936. George was a sailor serving on H.M.S. Foyle, and Gertrude lived at 17 Saint Margaret's Plain, Lowestoft. In 1939 Gertrude lived with her family at 47 Newson's Meadow, Lowestoft. 

On 11 December 1942 H.M.S. Blean, sailing eleven miles north-west of Oran, was sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine U-443. Of the 168 men on board 89, including George, were killed. 

Gertrude remarried in 1951.