Stanley Laurence Shreeve

A Seaman with H.M.S. Sotra. Stanley died on 29th of January 1942 at the age of 27. 

Stanley was born at Lowestoft on 23 August 1914, a son of Alfred Laurence and Florence Elizabeth Shreeve. He was baptised at Saint John's Church, Lowestoft, on 11 September 1914 and hos family lived at 35 Haward Street. By 1921 his family lived at 82 Stanford Street. By 1939 they were living at 153 Clapham Road, Lowestoft, and Stanley worked as a trawl and drift fisherman.

Stanley married Rose Doris Pickess in late 1939 and they lived at 175 Whapload Road, Lowestoft.

Stanley served with H.M.S. Sotra, a mine-sweeping trawler. On 29 January 1942 the Sotra was escorting convoy TA-21 off Bargia, Egypt. The Sotra was sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine U-431 and sank. All twenty-two of the crew, including Stanley, were killed.