Rank: Lieutenant
Service: Royal Navy
Ship; H.M.S. "Veteran"
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Died: 26th September 1942
Age: 21 years old.
Born in 1921, Herbert was the son of Herbert Prinsep Somers Clogstoun M.B.E. and Christabel Margaret Clogstoun (née Carver) of Forest Row, Essex. They had married in Downton, Wiltshire on the 23rd March 1915. His father had served as a Captain in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 after which he was a Bank Inspector in Egypt. Herbert was baptised in Alexandria, Egypt. He had an older sister Patricia Margaret. He went to West Downs School in Winchester in 1929.
On the 1st September 1939 Herbert Clogstoun Snr. was commissioned as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve. Christabel Clogstoun died in January 1941.
Serving in the Royal Navy during WW2 Herbert was Mentioned in Despatches 'For skill and enterprise in action against enemy submarines'. This was announced in the London Gazette on the 27th January 1942.
In September 1942 he was serving in HMS Veteran. HMS Veteran was a British Admiralty V & W Short Range Escort Destroyer built in 1919. On the 26th September she was escorting a convoy when she was torpedoed by German Submarine U-404 when she was 380 miles west of Ireland. Herbert was one of nine officers and 150 ratings of the ship killed in the action.
As he has no known grave Herbert is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent. He is also commemorated on the War Memorial at West Downs School in Winchester.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, Newspaper Archives, Wreck sites, West Downs School, Noonans)
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Rank: Lieutenant
Service: Royal Navy
Ship; H.M.S. "Veteran"
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Died: 26th September 1942
Age: 21 years old.
Born in 1921, Herbert was the son of Herbert Prinsep Somers Clogstoun M.B.E. and Christabel Margaret Clogstoun (née Carver) of Forest Row, Essex. They had married in Downton, Wiltshire on the 23rd March 1915. His father had served as a Captain in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 after which he was a Bank Inspector in Egypt. Herbert was baptised in Alexandria, Egypt. He had an older sister Patricia Margaret. He went to West Downs School in Winchester in 1929.
On the 1st September 1939 Herbert Clogstoun Snr. was commissioned as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve. Christabel Clogstoun died in January 1941.
Serving in the Royal Navy during WW2 Herbert was Mentioned in Despatches 'For skill and enterprise in action against enemy submarines'. This was announced in the London Gazette on the 27th January 1942.
In September 1942 he was serving in HMS Veteran. HMS Veteran was a British Admiralty V & W Short Range Escort Destroyer built in 1919. On the 26th September she was escorting a convoy when she was torpedoed by German Submarine U-404 when she was 380 miles west of Ireland. Herbert was one of nine officers and 150 ratings of the ship killed in the action.
As he has no known grave Herbert is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent. He is also commemorated on the War Memorial at West Downs School in Winchester.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, Newspaper Archives, Wreck sites, West Downs School, Noonans)
(Bio: Woose)
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