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In Memory - HMS Dunedin24th November 1941.
On the 24th November 1941, the following members of the Royal Marines Band Service gave their lives while serving onboard HMS Dunedin.
Bandmaster J. Sargeant.
Band Corporals C.R.M. West and J.H. Jones.
Band Boy C.A. Worthington.
Musicians A.E. Blackburn, A.F. Moore, T. Moody, C.H.G. Clapham, R. Crago, G.L.Penny and W.W. Riddlestone.
HMS Dunedin was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy.
She was launched from the yards of Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 13 September 1919.
So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Dunedin.
Early in the Second World War, she was involved in the hunt for the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau after the sinking of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi.
In early 1940, Dunedin was operating in the Caribbean, and here intercepted the German merchant Heidelberg west of the Windward Passage.
However her crew scuttled her before she could be captured.
A few days later, Dunedin, in company with the Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine, intercepted and captured the German merchant Hannover near Jamaica.
The Hannover later became the first British escort carrier, HMS Audacity.
On 24 November 1941 HMS Dunedin was in the Central Atlantic, east of St. Paul's Rocks, north east of Recife, Brazil when she was sunk at 1526 hours by two torpedoes from the German submarine U-124.
Only four officers and 63 men survived out of a crew of 486 officers and men.
To those named above and the ships crew who also died.....R.I.P.
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