BRITISH DESTROYER ARMADA SINKS JAPANESE CRUISER. 22 MAY 1945, ON BOARD HMS SAUMAREZ, AT TRINCOMALEE. HMS SAUMAREZ, ONE OF THE FLOTILLA OF BRITISH DESTROYERS WHICH SANK A JAPANESE CRUISER OF THE NATI CLASS IN THE MALECCA STRAITS. - The SAUMAREZ's torpedo party who made the first hits on the Japanese cruiser. Left to right: Able Seaman A F Coggle of Hull, Yorks; Leading Seaman T Branagh of Belfast; Able Seaman C C Short of Halmore, Glos; Able Seaman A Purrett, of Pinner, Middlesex; Petty Officer L G Finch, of East Dulwich, London; Chief Petty Officer F W Wilkes, CGM, of Dartmouth, Devon; Mr O C
BRITISH DESTROYER ARMADA SINKS JAPANESE CRUISER. 22 MAY 1945, ON BOARD HMS SAUMAREZ, AT TRINCOMALEE. HMS SAUMAREZ, ONE OF THE FLOTILLA OF BRITISH DESTROYERS WHICH SANK A JAPANESE CRUISER OF THE NATI CLASS IN THE MALECCA STRAITS. - The SAUMAREZ's torpedo party who made the first hits on the Japanese cruiser. Left to right: Able Seaman A F Coggle of Hull, Yorks; Leading Seaman T Branagh of Belfast; Able Seaman C C Short of Halmore, Glos; Able Seaman A Purrett, of Pinner, Middlesex; Petty Officer L G Finch, of East Dulwich, London; Chief Petty Officer F W Wilkes, CGM, of Dartmouth, Devon; Mr O C Resiegh, Gunner (T), RN, of Plymouth; Able Seaman J Fall, of East Dulwich; Able Seaman C Shaw, of Stoke-on-Trent; Able Seaman R Courtier of Changford, near Newton Abbot, Devon; Able Seaman C A Cooksley of Cardiff; Able Seaman T Upton, of Dingle, Liverpool; Able Seaman J Watson of Largs, Ayrshire
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