Name
Claude Robert James Allison
8/03/1920
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
09/03/1944
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Signalman
C/JX 204575
Royal Navy
HMS Asphodel (K56)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 76. 3.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent.
UK & Other Memorials
Aldbury WW2 Memorial Plaque, John Dickinson & Co Apsley Mills Memorial 1939 - 1945
Pre War
Claude Robert James ALLISON was born Upper Holloway, London, on 8th March 1920, son of Robert Alson Allison a Railway Checker and Violet Allison (nee Voice). Their only child. His parents were married on 25th January 1919, at Saint John the Evangelist Church, Upper Holloway, London.
Claude was Baptised on 23rd May 1920, at Saint John the Evangelist Church, Upper Holloway, London.
1921 census records Claude aged 1yr+3m, living with his parents, in Upper Holloway, London.
1939 Register records Claud aged 19, living with his parents, at 53 Stocks Road, Aldbury, Herts. He was employed as an Estimating Clerk, for John Dickinson & Co, at their Apsley Mill.
Wartime Service
Claude enlisted in the Royal Navy, issued with the Service No. C/JX 204575. Claude was killed in action on 9th/10th March 1944, will serving aboard HMS Asphodel (K56) a Flower-Class Corvette as a signalman.
HMS Asphodel was in convey SL-150, which was combined with convoy MKS-41, off Cape Finisterre when at 01-54 Hrs. on 10th March 1944, she was hit by a torpedo from the German U-Boat U-575, under the command of Oberleutnant Zur See Wolfgang Boehmer. HMS Asphodel sank with the loss of the Captain Lt. M. A. Halliday R.N.Z.N.R. 4 Officers and 87 Ratings, Claude being one of them, only 5 crew survived, they were rescued by HMS Clover.
U-575 was sunk on 13th March 1944, in the North Atlantic North of the Azores, by a combination of Allied ships and Aircraft, with the loss of 18 crew, 37 crew survived.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
