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Leading Seaman
Laurence Frank
GROVES
,
DSM
Royal Navy
Died On:
Aged:
6 May 1942
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Leading Seaman Laurence Frank Groves, DSM, C/J 101563, died on 27 April 1942 when HMS URGE was lost after striking a German mine off Malta. He had previously served with the CO of HMS URGE, Lt Cdr Tomkinson, in HMS THAMES, pre-War.
He was born on 25 November 1905 to Frank and Rose Groves, and was husband of Gladys Winifred Groves of Fleetwood Lancashire.
He was awarded the DSM on 2 December 1941 for service in HMS URGE and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent and the HMS URGE Memorial, Malta.
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