Name
Stanley James Budgell
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
23/01/1943
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Radio Officer
Merchant Navy
S.S. Ville de Tamatave (Liverpool)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Panel 115.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Saviour's Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin, Merchant Navy Memorial to the Missing, Trinity Square, London
Biography
He was the 2nd Radio Officer on board the 6,276 ton S.S. ‘Ville de Tamatave’ of Liverpool. This vessel had been built in 1931 and was a French liner taken over by the British War Transport Board in June 1940 after the capitulation of France to Germany. The vessel left Cardiff in ballast on the 7th January 1943 bound for New York, but early on January 24th reported from 50 l 7N 40 55W that her rudder had broken during a gale and that she was sinking. She carried 71 crew and 17 passengers.
Stan has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 115 of the Merchant Navy Memorial to the Missing at Trinity Square, Tower Hill in London.
He was the son of Sidney Herbert and Jessie Mary Budgell of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, ‘Dictionary of Disasters at Sea’ by C. Hocking
