WALKER Geoffrey Herbert

  • First Name(s):
    Geoffrey 
    Herbert 
  • Surname:
    WALKER
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
  • Ship:
    HMS Bluebell
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    17th February 1945
  • Age At Death:
    30
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 90. Column 2.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Norman Duguid Walker and Ada Walker, of Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham. B.A. (Cantab.).

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WALKER Geoffrey Herbert Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern College WW2 Memorial

Further Information About WALKER Geoffrey Herbert

Awarded D.S.C.

Geoffrey Walker was born in 1915. He attended Malvern College in House 3 from 1928 to 1933.

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

On 17th February 1945 HMS Blubell searching for U-Boats ahead of Convoy RA-64. At 17.30 hours approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Kildin Island in the Barents Sea, she was hit by a German Navy Acoustic Torpedo fired from U-711. The torpedo struck the stern of the ship detonating her depth charges. The ship sank in less than 30 seconds and the few men who survived the attack succumbed to the ice cold waters very quickly.

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