Able Seaman C/JX 208273 William Henry Glover

Family details:
Son of William and Lilian Glover, of St. Helens, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. There are eight members of the household redacted including William H. Father William Glover born 19/12/1894 a General Labourer and mother Lilian Glover born 04/06/1895 an Unpaid Domestic are living at 43 Talbot Street, St Helens. The actual transcript has William as an Unpaid Domestic and mother Lillian as a Plasterer Heavy Worker. Both have the wrong birth dates (details corrected above)

HMS Turbulent (N 98) - Submarine of the T-Class. HMS Turbulent (Cdr. [i]John Wallace[/i] Linton, DSO, DSC, RN) sailed from Algiers on 23 February 1943 for a patrol in the Tyrrhenian Sea. This was her 12th and last Mediterranean war patrol before returning to the U.K. for a refit. She failed to return from patrol and HMS Turbulent was declared overdue on 23 March 1943. Turbulent had been ordered to patrol off Bocca Piccola (approach to Napleas, east of Capri) and arrive there during the daylight hours of 6th March. Ultra intercept had shown that an important convoy was leaving Naples on that day. Turbulent was possibly sunk on this day by the Italian torpedo boat Ardito in position 264 degrees, Punta Licosa, 34 nautical miles. Ardito was part of this convoy made up of the Italian merchant Innes Corrado and the German merchants Balzac and Henry Estier. They were escorted by the above mentioned Ardito and Groppo, Orione, Cigno and Generale Antonio Cascino. (At 0745 hours/6 March, Ardito reported sighting a Ju-88 bomber dropping a depth-charge in position 264 degrees, Punta Licosa, 34 nautical miles. This was 3000 meters on the starboard flank of the convoy, the convoy took avoiding action by turning to port. The Italian torpedo-boat Ardito (Capitano di Corvetta [i]Silvio[/i] Cavo) was detached to attack the submarine. Asdic contact was obtained at 1300 meters and two patterns of depth-charges were dropped (the actual number is not listed in Ardito's log). The torpedo-boat lost contact at 0935 hours. This attack is now thought to have sunk HMS Turbulent. Another possibility is that Turbulent was mined. The wreck has never been found or any of the bodies of the crew recovered. [center][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/TURBULENT_badge-1-.jpg[/img][/center] HMS Turbulent had an outstaning war record. Turbulent had sunk a huge amount of enemy shipping and endured numerous attacks. Turbulent sank over 90,000 tons of enemy shipping. (one cruiser, one destroyer, one U-boat, twenty-eight supply ships, and destroyed three trains by gunfire) She was depth charged on over 250 occasions by enemy forces hunting her. In recognition of this achievement, and the gallentry of Turbulent's crew, her commander, John Wallace Linton, DSO, DSC, RN was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross on 25 May 1943. [pic]imgs/WW2_memorials/ChathamMemorialpanel69.png[/pic][caption]The panel on the Chatham Naval Memorial bearing the inscription for Able Seaman William Henry Glover [url=http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=11429.0]Image Courtesy Of Bobdonk[/url][/caption]