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Reginald Sam INKPEN
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- Stoker 1st Class P/KX 100497 Reginald Sam INKPEN. Royal Navy on H.M.S. Hood
Born 2 March 1920 to Loftus Sam and Mary Inkpen, nee Snell of Wootton Bassett. 1939 his parents were residing at 5 Vale View, Wootton Bassett.
May 1941 HMS Hood, and Prince of Wales were sent to search for the German battleship, Bismark. On the morning 24 May 1941 the Bismark was found west of Iceland, resulting in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Bismarck fired a salvo at extreme range (23,000 yards) and scored a hit upon the Hood. HMS Hood was struck in her magazines, for she blew up with a tremendous explosion and she disintegrated. Masts, funnels and other portions of her superstructure were hurled upwards. Of her crew of 1,341 only 3 were saved. He was 21 years.
Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.
WRECKSITE - HOOD BATTLECRUISER 1916-1941
HOOD BATTLECRUISER 1916-1941, wreck, wreck databasewww.wrecksite.eu
Photograph credited to http://www.hmshood.com/crew/memorial/i/InkpenRS.htm
