Electrical Artificer 3rd Class 

Eric Gordon 

ENGLAND

Royal Navy

Died On:
Aged:
3 May 1943

24

Eric England was fatally wounded when survivors from HMS SAHIB, which had been sunk by the Italian corvette GABBIANO, were strafed by enemy aircraft.  He succumbed to his wounds on 3 May while a prisoner-of-war.

He was the son of Albert and Lydia England and the husband of Joan England of Lewisham.  He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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