Harry Frederick Albert Segasby

An Ordinary Seaman with H.M.S. Collingwood, Harry died on 18th of June 1943 at the age of 19. 

Harry was born at Oulton Broad on 30 August 1923, a son of Frederick George and Annie Elizabeth Susan Segasby. In 1939 his family lived at 50 Notley Road Lowestoft.

On 18 June 1943 a German bomber dropped two bombs on the Royal Navy training establishment H.M.S. Collingwood. One drop fell on the playing field, but the other hit an accommodation block killing 33 men, including Harry, and injuring 38 others. Harry, like the other sailors killed, had only been in the navy for a couple of weeks.