Stoker 1st Class D/KX 110193 George Ronald Mullock

BMD details:
Marriage of Ronald Mullock to Julia Clarke reg Q1 1942 St Helens, Vol 8b page 1578

Family details:
Son of George and Elizabeth Mullock; husband of Julia Mullock, of Moss Bank, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately George R is redacted. Father George Mullock born 19/09/1888 a Carpenter Joiner and mother Elizabeth A Mullock born 18/08/1893 an Unpaid Domestic are living at 7 Thirlmere Avenue, St Helens.

[b][pic][/b]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Tender_HMS_Hecla_zps51a12307.jpg[/pic][caption]HMS HECLA[/caption] [b]HMS HECLA[/b] (November 11, 1942) Royal Navy depot ship of 10,850 tons, the fifth of seven ships to bear this name, was taking part in the Allied landings in North Africa, when it was torpedoed and sunk just after midnight by a German U-boat, the U-515. It sank west of the Straits of Gibraltar, 337 kilometres northwest of Rabat, French Morocco. A total of 279 men died and 568 survivors were rescued by the escort destroyers. HMS Venomous succeeded in rescuing more survivors from Hecla and landed them at Casablanca. Seven months earlier, on April 16, 1942, she was part of convoy WS-18 which ran into a minefield laid by the German Minelayer Doggerbank. Damaged and taken in tow by the light cruiser HMS Gambia, she was to spend the next eighteen weeks in Simonstown undergoing repairs. In this instance twenty-four of her crew were killed when she struck the mine amidships. [br] [pic]imgs/WW2_misc/MullockGeorgeR.jpg[/pic][caption]National Probate Calendar[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW2_misc/MullockGeorgeR_b.jpg[/pic][caption]Commonwealth War Graves[/caption] [center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Mullock_zps14f4efe5.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]The panel on the Plymouth Naval Memorial bearing the name of Stoker 1st Class George Ronald Mullock[/caption]