Percy Charles HILL
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- Percy Charles HILL, lost at sea 11th January 1943 aged 20, 3rd Radio Officer, Merchant Navy M.V. British Dominion [London] Born on the 12th October 1922 to John Wakefield and Henrietta Lavinia. Commemorated on a family memorial in the Holy Cross churchyard, Avening, Gloucestershire and also on the Tower Hill Memorial, Trinity Square, London
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At 00.40 hours on 11 January 1943, U-522 (Schneider) attacked the convoy TM-1 northwest of the Canary Islands and reported one tanker sunk and one other damaged. In fact, the British Dominion (Master Joseph Douglas Miller) was struck by three torpedoes and abandoned.
After 03.00 hours on 11 January, the wreck was sunk by U-620 with a coup de grâce and gunfire. 33 crew members and four gunners were lost. The master, ten crew members and five gunners were picked up by HMS Godetia (K 226) (Lt A.H. Pierce, OBE, RNR) and landed at Gibraltar, but one crew member had died from injuries and was buried at sea on 14 January
