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Canteen Assnt. Samuel Stothard
NAAFI HMS Dorsetshire
from:Hartlepool
(d.5th Apr 1942)
Samuel Stothard was a Canteen Assistant for the Navy Army and Air Force Institute (Naafi) on board HMS Dorsetshire and died on the 5th April 1942 when the Heavy Cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall were sunk under attack from Japanese carrier based aircraft in the Indian Ocean about 300 miles from Ceylon.