D/JX 146237 Able Seaman Benjamin PROBERT H.M.S. "Drake 1" 12 May 1943, 24 He was a gunner on HMS Exeter at the Battle of the River Plate, December 1939
He is buried in Coleford Cemetery and he has a private CWGC headstone
1929 HMS EXETER. One of the most celebrated British war ships of the Second World War, thanks to her heroic role in the fight with the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off the mouth of the River Plate in 1939.
A UNIQUE SHIP
HMS Exeter she was in a class of her own was...
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