Stoker 2nd Class D/KX 113073 Enoch Fairhurst

Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately four members of the household are redacted including Enoch. Father William Fairhurst born 30/12/1890 a Glass Works Packer, mother Alice Fairhurst born 28/09/1889 an Unpaid Domestic and brother Vincent Fairhurst born 15/12/1925 At School are living at 50 Baxters Lane, Sutton, St Helens

Notes:
[note=166]Two Fairhurst Brothers who died in World War Two[/note] Uncle [cas=2243]Charles Albert Hill[/cas] died in The Great War. Shown as Ernest on CWGC.

[pic]tpics/113073_Fairhurst_2.jpg[/pic][caption]Newspaper cutting for Stoker 2nd Class Enoch Fairhurst (Photo courtesy of relative Helena Dugdale)[/caption] [pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/HMS_Grimsby_zps46cd4156.jpg[/pic][caption]H.M.S. Grimsby[/caption] GRIMSBY-Class Sloop ordered from HM Dockyard Devonport under the 1931 Programme on 1st Nov. 1932 and laid down on 23rd January 1932. The ship was launched on 19th July 1933. Build was completed on 17tn May 1934. After commissioning at Devonport she visited Grimsby and Mablethorpe before taking passage to Hong Kong where minesweeping equipment was fitted. All her pre-war service was east of Suez and she was recalled to UK for convoy defence duties after the outbreak of WW2. On the 25th of May 1941 she was sunk off the coast, north of Tobruk after air attacks during support of the Tobruk garrison [center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Fairhurst_E_zps8ab7406b.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]The panel on the Plymouth Naval Memorial bearing the name of Stoker 2nd Class Enoch Fairhirst[/caption]