DUMBLETON Herbert
Died 1 March 1944 Age 29
Remembered Plymouth Naval Memorial

DUMBLETON Herbert
Service Record

Royal Navy Service no. D/KX 112272 Stoke 1st Class served on the frigate HMS Gould. He had been in many engagements and was involved in the Battle of Crete and also in Malta convoys. His wife Laura was also serving in WRNS. Herbert was educated at Ripley’s Hospital before joining the Royal Navy he was employed by Messrs Hopwood Bros.

Son of Bertie and Mary Dumbleton and married to Laura Dumbleton all from Carnforth, Lancashire

1921 Census shows him as aged 6, his father was a goods guard with the London North West Railway Company. He was living with his siblings Mabel aged 2 and Jack aged 8 months. His brother also served in the Royal Artillery The Green Howards and the Royal Scot Fusiliers.

Stoker 1st Class D/KX112272 Herbert Dumbleton of the Royal Navy. Born in June 1915 at 22 Gerrard St, Lancaster, he was educated at Ripley Hospital School, Lancaster. By 1939 he was living in Leeds, where he married Laura Dunkley in 1943. Prior to moving to Leeds he was almost certainly living at 11 Kings Drive, Carnforth, with his mother, Mary. He was killed in action on 1 March 1944 when HMS Gould, a British Captain class frigate, was torpedoed in the North Atlantic by the German submarine, U-358. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. Ref: Panel 89, Column 3. He was 28 years old.