Ivan William Raymond Edwards

A Leading Stoker with H.M.S. Bluebell, Ivan died on 17th of February 1945 aged 23. 

Ivan was born at Lowestoft on 23 April 1921, a son of William Ernest and Kathleen May Edwards. In 1921 his family lived at 54 Cambridge Road. By 1939 their home was at Rivetts Loke, Market Lane, Blundeston. 

Ivan served with the corvette H.M.S. Bluebell. On 17 February 1945 the Bluebell was off Murmansk, waiting for convoy JW 64 to assemble, and was hit by an acoustic torpedo fired by the German submarine U-711 which caused the Bluebell’s depth charges to explode. The Bluebell sank in under a minute and of the 86 crew only one man was saved.