Albert Leslie Dymond
Memorial: Thornbury & District Museum: 6th Maritime Regiment Memorial
Regiment: 6th Maritime Regiment
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Gunner
Parents: Samuel John and Alice Maud Dymond
Marital status: Married
Home address: 3 Claremont Road, Hendon, Middlesex
Pre-war occupation: Bricklayer
Date of birth: 05/11/1910
Date of death: 21/12/1942
Buried/Commemorated at: Died at sea and commemorated Plymouth Naval Memorial Devon and the Maritime Memorial Thornbury
Age: 32
Further information:
Albert was the son of a labourer. He was born in Devon and had 2 older sisters. Albert married Dorothy Beatrice Hayman in Newton Abbot in the Spring of 1935 and together they had three children. They moved to Middlesex and Albert's eldest child Patricia was aged 6 when he died.
On the day of his death, Albert was serving aboard the British Steam Merchant ‘Montreal City’, which was an unescorted straggler from convoy ON-152, on route from Milford Haven to New York, carrying 1800 tons of general cargo, including china clay. At 03.56 hours on 21 Dec 1942 the vessel was hit by one torpedo from U-boat U-591 about 600 miles east-northeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland. The crew abandoned ship in 3 lifeboats and the U-boat used a further torpedo to sink the vessel. The survivors were never seen again: the master, 32 crew members and seven gunners, including Albert were lost.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/2527.html