KEELING John Mills

  • First Name(s):
    John 
    Mills 
  • Surname:
    KEELING
  • Service Number:
    PJX264214
  • Rank:

    Ordinary Seaman

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Navy
  • Ship:
    HMS Belmont
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    31st January 1942
  • Age At Death:
    33
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 65, Column 3.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of John Mills Keeling and Elizabeth Keeling, of Dudley, Worcestershire; husband of Elizabeth Keeling

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KEELING John Mills Is Named On These Memorials

Dudley St Edmund King and Martyr Church

Further Information About KEELING John Mills

HMS Belmont was on escort duty of a Canadian troop convoy which left Halifax, Nova Scotia on 30th January 1942. She was South of Newfoundland when she was hit and sunk by a torpedo fired from U-82. There were no survivors from the ship’s crew of 138 men.

John Keeling has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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