Able Seaman D/JX 345649 Charles Doward

BMD details:
Marriage of Charles Doward to Harriet W Duckworth reg Q4 1936 St Helens Vol 8b page 1337

Family details:
Son of Isaac and Annie Doward; husband of Harriet Winifred Doward, of Parr, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. 24 years old Charles Doward born 26/07/1913 a Glassworker Production Process- Taker Out and wife Harriet Gill (Doward) born 28/10/1915 an Unpaid Domestic are living at 39 Chorley Street, St Helens. There is one member of the household redacted which is probably a child.

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=34]Remembered on St Helens Parish Church Memorial.[/url]

[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/lct_zps500b4a2c.jpg[/pic][caption]Landing Ship Tank[/caption] Landing Ship Tank (Class II) LST (2,750 tons) [b][i]Complement[/i][/b] 9 officers, 120 enlisted [b][i]Troop Accommodations[/i][/b] 14 officers, 131 enlisted [b][i]Boats[/i][/b] 6 LCVP [b][i]Cargo Capacity[/i][/b] (varied with mission - payloads between 1600 and 1900 tons) Typical loads - One Landing Craft Tank (LCT), tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck [b][i]Armament[/i][/b] 2 - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors, 4 - Single 40MM gun mounts 12 single 20MM gun mounts. Laid down, 10 August 1942, at Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA. Launched, 10 October 1942 Transferred to the United Kingdom under terms of the Lend-Lease Act, 23 November 1942 Commissioned into the Royal Navy as [b]HM [i]LST-362[/i][/b], 16 November 1942 Sailed from New York as part of the 1st Flotilla, 27 January 1943, for the Mediterranean via Bermuda During World War II [b]HM [i]LST-362[/i][/b] was assigned to the European Theater and participated in the following campaigns: Sicilian occupation, 9 and 10 July 1943 Salerno landings, September 1943 West Coast of Italy operations - 1944 - Anzio-Nettuno advanced landing, 22 January 1944 Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-744 while returning from the Mediterranean to the UK in convoy [b]MKS-40[/b] in Biscay Bay area, 2 March 1944 [center][pic2 width=200]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Doward_zps58a0484a.jpg[/pic2][caption]The panel on the Plymouth Naval Memorial bearing the name of Able Seaman Charles Doward[/caption]