Person    | Male  Born 1918  Died 7/2/1941

Able Seaman Christopher Appleby

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Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Able Seaman Christopher Appleby

Son of William Charles Appleby and Edith Emily Appleby. Lived at 121 Hindle House Arcola Street Hackney where, 5 months before his death, a bomb had killed his mother. He was a Royal Navy DEMS Gunner aboard the merchant ship 'SS Bay Fisher' when it was bombed by an enemy aircraft and sunk 3.5 miles North East of Bell Rock Scotland. Of the ship's crew eight were lost including Appleby and four were rescued. Appleby is also remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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Able Seaman Christopher Appleby

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