George Frederick Winney

A Seaman with H.M. Trawler Myrtle, George died on 14 June 1940, aged 22.

George was born at Lowestoft on 13 February 1918, a son of Joseph and Annie Elizabeth Winney. George was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 14 March 1918 and his family lived at 19 Rant Score, and this was still their address in 1921. By 1939 George was living with his parents at 114 Whapload Road and he was a trawler fisherman.   

During the Second World War George served with the trawler Myrtle which was used for minesweeping duties. On 22 November 1939 the Myrtle rescued survivors from S.S. Lowland which had been mined off Clacton on Sea. On 14 June 1940 the Myrtle was in the Thames Estuary and the crew attempted to take a magnetic mine on board when the mine exploded killing all of the crew.