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"SOUTHGATE, WILLIAM A., MUSICIAN"


Musician William Southgate dressed in best uniform


Musician William Southgate sitting on Ammo locker as part of 4inch gun crew

From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

SOUTHGATE, Musician, WILLIAM ALFRED, RMB/X 490.
H.M.S. Neptune. Royal Marine Band. 19th December 1941. Age 24.
Son of Percy Oliver Southgate and Ellen Miriam Southgate, of Belstead, Suffolk.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 60, Column 1.

 

 

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