Remarks: Stoker 1st Class.SSX19344.
Changed to P/KX 95367 on 13.10.38.
Date of entry for Boy Service 13.11.36 at HMS Pembroke.
HMS Wildfire27 .2.37.
HMS Iron Duke 11.6.37.
HMS London. 26 July 37.
HMS Victory 30.11.38.
HMS Nelson 14 .1.39.
HMS Coldsnap 21.11.39.
HMS Victory 16.4.40.
HMS Cossack 23.4.40. Joined at Portsmouth on 30 April 1940 . (ERA’s Messman)
Missing presumed killed 23.10.41 - Age 21 (single)

Son of George E. and Nellie L. De Lara of Southampton.
Boy 2nd Class 13.11.36.
Boy 1st Class 19.2.37.
Ordinary Seaman 19.3.38.
Stoker 2nd Class 13.10.38.
Stoker 1st class 13.10.39.
Granted 1 Good conduct Badge on 19 March 1941.

Character: Very Good

Remarks: (Survivor discharged to HMS Victory taking passage in HMS Rodney). Born 25.3.1916 in a house within the compound of the Corfe Mullen Waterworks near Wimborne, Dorset. 7th of 9 children of Frank and Mabel. Worked as a milkman and maintenance fitter before joining the Navy at Royal Arthur (Skegness) on 15 July 1940. Joined Victory on 21.8.40 followed by Cossack on 7.11.40. This was followed by Boscawen, Hawkins and Orlando

Documents:

• Ivor Dean
• Ivor & Cossack
• Ivor Dean

Remarks: Joined RN April 1940. September 1940 at Roysth – 23 October 1941 (Ships books show 19 August) First experience of L03 guns fired in anger was October 1940 off Egersund Norway when ambushing a German Convoy (At BISMARCK action) (
Survivor. Wounded 23.10.41. Abandoned ship by scrambling over torpedo tubes and jumping from the starboard side. Picked up by HMS Carnation and discharged to military hospital (One week) and HMS Cormorant). Passage home in HMS Zulu which was part of a screen to RODNEY. Ships Royal Arthur, Victory, After COSSACK went to RNB then MERCURY for signal exam followed by RINGWOOD (An old Southern Railway cattle boat used as a netlayer) Drafted to SCYLLA Dido class AA Cruiser – Capt. MacIntyre) Collected AMEER (Escort carrier) from USA Released March 1946. Became GPO Telegraphist and then joined Custom and Excise. Died 18 September 2001 (Wife Edna Died December 2002)

Remarks: Served as an able seaman with the Holt Line.
Joined RN 3 June 1941 Joined LO3 26 August 1941 (Missing presumed Killed 23.10.41)
(RN Records spell as Edinbrough
(married to Elsie of Tilehurst, Berkshire)
son of James Samuel and Kate Elizabeth Edinborough

Remarks: Joined RN in 1932 age 14 at HMS St Vincent. Served on Arctic convoys. Onboard Cossack as a Signalman January 1939 (Wounded 23.10.41 & discharged to military hospital and HMS Cormorant). Served on HMS Matchless. Discharged from RN January 1949 as Chief Yeoman of Signals. Married three times and had a son and daughter. Became GPO Post Master in Brighton. Died October 1992. His ashes were scattered at sea. Grandson (Richard Elford )piloted helicopters in Afghanistan.

Remarks: Joined LO3 August 1941. The Boys Mess Deck was on the Starboard side of the lower deck. At Action Stations he was the right hand fuse setter on X gun. Was on X Gun deck looking out Port side forward when he saw the phosphorescent trail of the torpedo approaching (Survivor picked up by Legion and discharged to HMS Victory taking passage in HMS Rodney)
Joined RN 17 2.40 as a Boy 2nd Class at GANGES. 18.2.40 Boy 1st Class. 17.5.40 St GEORGE, 31.10.40 VICTORY, 22.9.40 VERNON, 26.8.41 VICTORY, 29..8.41 COSSACK, 28 .10.41 VICTORY as an Able Seaman, 7.1.42 FORMIDABLE, 23.5.42 Able Seaman, 1.12.43 VICTORY, 9.3.44 VERNON (R), 4.8.44 EMERALD,23.9.44 VICTORY, 3.10.44 VANOC, 10.2.45 VICTORY, 12.2.45 Acting Leading Seaman (Temp), 19.4.45 VERNON (R),
3.8.45 MARLBOROUGH, 30.11.45 VERNON P,
12.2.46 Leading Seaman (Temp),
24.7.46 MARLBOROUGH, 21.11.46 Leading Seaman, 3.12.46 VERNON, 17.2.47 VICTORY,
19.2.47 COLLINGWOOD,
14.4.47 Changed branch to Leading Electricians Mate and changed number to C/MX766384, 6.7.47 DEFIANCE, 25.10 47 COLLINGWOOD, 25.11.47 MAIDSTONE, 2.2.48 VICTORY, 13.3.48 CONCORD, 7.10.48 Acting Electrician,, 28.7.49 BELFAST, 7.10.49 Electrician, 6.4.50 TERROR, 11.4.50 VICTORY, 5.7.50 OSPREY, 6.6.51 JUTLAND, 3.5.52 BARROSA, 4.5.53 PEMBROKE –CS expired.,
Left RN 1954 and joined Royal Canadian Navy for 21 ½ years followed by 14 years in the Canadian Coastguard. 7.7.54 NIOBE as P2ET3, 16.7.54 CORNWALLIS, 29.11.54 STADACONA, 12.12.54 NOOTKA, 28.3.55 STADACONA, 19.12.55 QUEBEC, 6.6.56 MAGNIFICENT,1.6.57 P2ET4, , 15.6.57 STADACONA, 23.6.58 CAPE BRETON, 8.8.58 NADEN (Shipyard), 29.8.58 BROCKVILLE, 31.10.58 STADACONA, 28.12.58 KOOTENAY, 17.12.60 TERRA NOVA, 17.1.62 STADACONA, 3.6.62 OUTREMONT, 15.4.63 STANSACONA, 6.3.63 CAPE SCOTT, 6.9.63 NADEN (FS), 1.12.63 C2ET4 –Promoted to commissioned officer 17.4.64. Following the WWII he married Kathleen in Hong Kong Died 13 May 2014 with his ashes committed to the deep from HMCS Sackville during Battle of the Atlantic Ceremonies in May 2015. Survived by daughters Janice Hill, Marilyn Streatch and son Geoffrey

Remarks: Joined RN 1937 Died 1981
Only son of Mr and Mrs Walter Ewing of 81 High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh. Grandson - Keith Hunter.
Part of the boarding Party for the Altmark Incident
Joining the ship's company on 14 June 1938 just before she sailed to Gibraltar on 8 July and then on to Malta on 12 July 38. Think he left the Cossack in the spring of 1941. He was on the Manchester probably from her refit in April 1941. So would have been on her rather than the Cossack during the Bismarck Sortie. He was definitely on board the Manchester in July 1941 when she set off for Malta. He was one of the lucky ones to be rescued when she was attacked and scuttled in August 42 - the reason for the gap in his service after this is that he was injured and spent some time back in Scotland convalescing.

Remarks: Ordinary Seaman. P/JX 212450. Joined from Collingwood September 1940 (Survivor discharged to HMS Victory taking passage in HMS Rodney) In the water for 1 ¼ hours. Died 1990 Aged 70. Joined the Royal Navy at the Eastbourne Recruiting Office in Sea side Road. Son of Mr J. A. Abel, Newsagent, Church Street, Eastbourne

Remarks: Stoker 2nd Class P/KX 97837. Onboard at October 1939 Died 13 April 1940 (Battle of Narvik) age 18. (Single) Son of Arthur James and Annie Abery of Selsy Sussex

Remarks: Signalman October 1939 to March 1940?