Raynor, W P F (William Peter Frank)

Raynor, W P F (William Peter Frank)

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Engine Room Artificer 4th Class William Raynor was the son of William Peter Raynor and of Letitia Agnes Raynor (nee Reid); husband of Margaret Roberta Raynor, of Heamoor, Penzance, Cornwall.

William passed away in the Waterside Military Hospital, Londonderry after suffering from tuberculous meningitis which was caused by pulmonary tuberculosis.[1]

His ship H.M.S. Roxborough[2] was a destroyer that was built in 1918 and was originally owned by the United States (then called USS Foote.) It had only arrived in Londonderry in March 1941 under the loan/lease agreement between the two governments. No further information is available at present.

Date of Death: 08/05/1941 (Aged 23)

Service: Engine Room Artificer 4th Class, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Roxborough.

Service Number: C/MX 61634

Burial Location: Londonderry (or Derry), City Cemetery, C. of E. Plot. Sec. F. Grave 7.


[1] Pulmonary tuberculosis, sometime known as TB leads to a wasting away of the body.

[2] HMS Roxborough was destroyer of the Town class, launched September 1940, scrapped 1952.

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