| Verdun Pierpoint I read your website on the Royal Oak with interest since I am researching the men from my home town of Wantage, Oxon (then Berks) who died in WW1 and WW2. One of the WW2 men sadly died in the sinking of the Royal Oak. His name was P0/X 1421 Marine Verdun Loos James Pierpoint and was aged 22. The son of Mr and Mrs William Pierpoint 22 Garston Lane Wantage, he was as you can see named after two battles of WW1 and served as Marine Verdun Loos James (for personal reasons) in the Royal Marines.Verdun had been in the service according to a newspaper cutting of the time for seven years and had only joined the Royal Oak in June 1939. Prior to this he had been on HMS Nelson and in Egypt for a year. Would it be possible please to put an appeal for further information on him through your website as I feel due to his unusual names something may turn up. Trev.Hancock@ukgateway.net | Bendell My Dad was “the last one out alive” being trapped in the sick bay. One of the few places with opening portholes.
We are looking for information on the book “BLACK SATURDAY” which our Dad was mentioned in one chapter.
Also he featured in a Daily Telegraph cartoon depicted inside a “Bubble” at the bottom of the sea.
Can you help?
Jim Bendell
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