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Re: H.M. Sloop "Slanto"?
Posted by:
scorpio
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Date: July 21, 2015 01:30PM
No need to apologise Phil - thanks for the input. I didn't know that he was recorded on the Alamein Memorial. However it makes sense in that he would have been a part of that theatre but was well dead before the Battle of El Alamein which would have become the focal naming point of the North Africa campaign. It makes me think he was off-shore Africa, not Greece. Just a guess.
However, to quote from his service record, as written -
W.O. Turner states, that Lieut. Scott above was allotted
for duty on H.M. Sloop "Slanto" which is reported to
have been sunk at sea in Apr. 41.
Allotted for duty on a boat and then sunk - he was in the Signals Corp and could be allocated anywhere. It sounds like he was assigned to a task, not just being transported, and then the boat got sunk. That would be all well and good except that the name of the boat doesn't seem to exist! Therein lies my problem - the official paperwork names a boat that doesn't appear on any listing of any ship in any navy anywhere. Any ideas?
However, to quote from his service record, as written -
W.O. Turner states, that Lieut. Scott above was allotted
for duty on H.M. Sloop "Slanto" which is reported to
have been sunk at sea in Apr. 41.
Allotted for duty on a boat and then sunk - he was in the Signals Corp and could be allocated anywhere. It sounds like he was assigned to a task, not just being transported, and then the boat got sunk. That would be all well and good except that the name of the boat doesn't seem to exist! Therein lies my problem - the official paperwork names a boat that doesn't appear on any listing of any ship in any navy anywhere. Any ideas?
