Butler A H Wrote:
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> HMTS ALERT 24=02=1945.
> Two Dems guners on this
> cable ship listed as HMS PRESIDENT on the C W W G
> S,we know that the President was a shore base but
> these two in question were part of the
> Alert.,which was lost with all hands.
> AB-- Clark F J Allward.
> AB-- Rivett F Willliam.
> It wood be nice to establish why they are not
> listed as lost on the HMTS ALERT AND KILLED BY
> ENEMY ACTION.
> Austin.
> A H Butler




Austin,

As the DEMS personnel were military and attached to HMS President they would show on CWGC as being part of that shore establishment when they became casualties. The DEMS gunners listed abve would have signed on the ships crew agreements, usually as deck hands, but from a military point of view they were still attached to HMS President.

Regards,

Mark