George Alexander Dalley

A Marine with H.M.S. Prince of Wales, George died on 13th of May 1943 aged 26. 

George was born at Lowestoft on 24 January 1917, a son of Ernest Alexander and Constance Dalley. In 1921 his family lived at 4 Anguish Street. By 1943 their home was at Rosalyn, 12 Poplar Road, Carlton Colville. 

In 1939 George was working as a butcher’s assistant, with Harry Butler a butcher and sausage manufacturer, and living at 48 Cedars Road, Edmonton, London. 

In December 1941 George served with the battleship H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the Far East. On 10 December the Prince of Wales was attacked by Japanese aircraft and sank. George survived the sinking of his ship, was rescued and taken to Singapore where, for administrative purposes he was recorded as being part of the compliment of H.M.S. Sultan, the Royal Navy’s base at Singapore. When Singapore fell, on 15 February 1942, George was captured.

He was sent to Thailand to work on the Burma Railway. George died from acute enteritis.