Leonard Frank Sargeant
Memorial: Thornbury & District Museum: 6th Maritime Regiment Memorial
Regiment: 6th Maritime Regiment
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Bombardier
Parents: William Henry and Emily Maud Sargeant
Marital status: Married
Home address: 174 Highgate Road, Birmingham
Pre-war occupation: Incineration Worker
Date of birth: 20/02/1900
Place of birth: Birmingham
Date of death: 23/12/1941
Buried/Commemorated at: Died at sea and commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial and the Maritime Memorial Thornbury
Age: 41
Further information:
On the day of his death Leonard was serving aboard the British Steam Passenger Ship ‘Shuntien’, part of convoy TA-5, on route from Tobruk, Libya to Alexandria, Egypt carrying 70 crew members, 18 gunners and 850-1100 German and Italian Prisoners of War. At 19.02 hours on 23 Dec 1941, the vessel was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U-559 northeast of Tobruk. The master, 47 crew members and an unknown number of gunners and prisoners were picked up by HMS Salvia and were all lost when the ship was sunk by U-boat U-568 the next day. An unknown number of survivors were picked up by HMS Heythrop but in all, over 700 men including Leonard, were lost. He was one of 10 gunners from the 6th Maritime Regiment alone who lost their lives in this incident.
Leonard Frank Sargeant (a not e as on the memorial).
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.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1234.html