Name
John Bertram Shillitoe
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1941
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Naval Reserve
H.M.S. Fiona
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
N. 158.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY. SON OF CAPT. BERTRAM AND SARAH EMMELINE SHILLITOE OF HITCHIN, HERTFORDSHIRE
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial
Biography
He was born on the 19th March 1917 and went to Caldicott School, Hitchin in 1925. He left the school in 1930 and went to Pangbourne College.
He served on H.M.S. ‘Fiona’ previously the British passenger steamship ‘Juna’ which had been taken over by the Admiralty. The vessel had been built in 1927 and was of 2,190 tons. She was sunk by enemy action in the Mediterranean on the 18th April 1941 and was probably assisting with the evacuation of British troops from Greece.
He was buried in the Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery in Alexandria., Egypt, in Plot N, Grave 158. His headstone bears the private inscription "In loving memory son of Capt Bertram and Sarah Emmeline Shillitoe of Hitchin Hertfordshire".
He was the son of Captain Bertram and Mrs Sarah Emmeline Shillitoe of Hitchin, and his home was at ‘Ballantia’, 10, Trevor Road, Hitchin. Captain Bertram Shillitoe was serving on H.M.S. ‘Canopus’ in August 1914.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Registers of Caldicott School, Slough, ‘Dictionary of Disasters at Sea’ by C. Hocking, ‘War at Sea 1939-45’ by J. Rohwer, Herts Express dated 29th August 1914
