Able Seaman P/JX 363564 Geoffrey Mercer
Regiment: Royal Navy - R.N H.M.S. Forester.
Theatre of War: At Sea
Age at death: 20
Date of death: 23rd of July 1944
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
BMD details:
Birth: 2nd Qtr 1924 Geoffrey Mercer registered at Prescot, Lancashire. Vol 8b - Page 1424. Mother maiden name: Battersby.
Family details:
Son of James and Annie Mercer, of Thatto Heath, St. Helens, Lancashire.
Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately Geoffrey and one other member of the household are redacted. Father James Mercer 28/01/1889 a Colliery Hewer Below (Heavy Worker) and mother Annie Mercer born 04/04/1893 an Unpaid Domestic are living at 3 Beresford Street, Thatto Heath, St Helens
[pic]imgs/sppics/HMS_Forester.jpg[/pic][caption]HMS Forester (H-74)[/caption]
An F-Class Destroyer, commissioned in 1935. She saw service in Norway, the Mediterranean, on Russian and Atlantic Convoys, and during the Normandy landings during July and August 1944.
Naval Records state - 23rd July 1944.
[i][b]Forester, surface action[/b][/i]
GUMBLETON, Stanley K, Sub Lieutenant, killed
MERCER, Geoffrey, Able Seaman, P/JX 363564, killed
SMALL, Walter A, Able Seaman, P/JX 330831, killed
[pic]imgs/WW2_headstones/365564_Mercer.jpg[/pic][caption]A dedication to Able Seaman Geoffrey Mercer at St Helens Cemetery
(Photo courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]
