Writer JOHN BLACK
Service Number: P/MX 724753
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
H.M.S. St. Austell Bay
Date of Death
Died 20 October 1946
Age 19 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of John Walter and Dora Black, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.
- Personal Inscription NEVER WAS THERE SUCH A BOY WHO WORKED AND HOPED FOR SO MUCH; LIFE GAVE HIM SO LITTLE
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