C/KX 126541
Stoker 1st Class
Victor Edwin Bratt
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Lanka
H.M.S. Lanka was a Naval establishment on the outskirts of Colombo
Group photo taken at H.M.S. Lanka, Colombo/Trincomalee.
Victor is standing left.
Died
Age: 42
12th February 1944
Victor was a passenger and lost at sea when the SS Khedive Ismail sunk in One and a Half Degree Channel - South-west of the Maldives near coordinates 01°25′N 72°22E.
Sailing on 6th February 1944 from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon in Convoy KR-8, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by a B1 type Japanese submarine. The Khedive Ismail was hit by two torpedoes. 1,297 perished.
Loved Ones
Son of Edwin and Francis Bratt
Husband of Violet Gertrude Bratt, of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Memorial
77, 3.
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
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