Bernard William Moyse

A Second Engineer Officer with the tug S. S. Aid (London), Bernard died on 29th of November 1940 aged 34.

Bernard was born at Kessingland in 1906, a son of Ernest and Blanche Pauline Moyse. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 1 April 1906. In 1911 his family lived at 2 Prospect Place, Kessingland, and this was still their home in 1921 when Bernard was a grocer’s assistant working for Mr. G. Brock at Lowestoft Road, Kessingland. 

In 1925 Bernard married Martha Elizabeth Catchpole, this was registered in the Mutford district. By 1939 their home was at 1 Woodfield Terrace, Kessingland. Martha remarried in 1942. 

Bernard died when his tug was attacked and sunk by enemy action about eight miles off Start Point, Devon. Five members of the crew were killed.

Bernard's son George served with the South Lancashire Regiment and died in 1945.