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First Name: | Geoffrey Alfred | Last Name: | LUSCOMBE |
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| Date of Death: | 01/05/1918 | Lived/Born In: | Norwood | |
| Rank: | Lieutenant Commander | Unit: | HMS Blackmorevale | |
| Memorial Site: | Plymouth Naval Memorial | |||
Current Information:Age-33 "Sunnyside," Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood
HMS Blackmorevale was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. On 1st May, 1918 she herself hit a mine, laid by the German submarine U-71, and sank in the North Sea off Montrose in eastern Scotland. Eleven members of her crew, including her captain, Geoffrey Luscombe, did not survive this incident. |
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