WW2 100 – 8 June 1940 – Victim of a cover-up? Lieutenant Cyril Howlett (1913-40), Royal Navy, HMS Glorious
Continued from 29 May 1940 A casualty of Operation Dynamo: LIEUTENANT HUBERT CHARLES COURTNEY TANNER (1913-40), Royal Navy, HMS Grafton https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/ww2-75-29-may-1940-casualty-of.html Cyril Howlett is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, situated on Plymouth Hoe, Devon Image credit: Partonez/Wikipedia Cyril Howlett lost his life in the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two escort ships HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta , on 8 June 1940. The event was a disaster which shocked Britain, resulting as it did in the deaths of 1,519 men. It was also a triumph for the Nazis in the propaganda war, the sinking being recorded by a German film crew and played to cinema audiences. The Old Royal Naval College, on the south bank of the river Thames in Greenwich, London, viewed from the north. Image credit: Wikipedia Cyril had chosen the Royal Navy as a ca...