FLETCHER, Leslie John

LT/JX 225174, Leading Seaman, Royal Naval Patrol Service, H.M.S. Trawler Adonis

Born 03/07/1914

Died 15/04/1943, Age 28, at sea by enemy action

Buried 21/04/1943

Listed as “Mentioned in despatches” in the London Gazette on 2nd June 1943

Son of Frederick Charles Fletcher and Jane Ann Fletcher (nee Withers) of Cleethorpes

Husband of Beatrice Irene Fletcher (nee Fieldgate) of Cleethorpes, married 1942 in Grimsby

Address: 29 Bentley Street, Cleethorpes

Ocupation (1939) – Fisherman (single, living at 51 Coronation Road, Cleethorpes)

HMT Adonis  (H308) was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1940 and was torpedoed off Lowestoft on 15/04/1943, with the loss of 17 men.

The other men killed were:

John Boardman, Engineer, Fleetwood

Ronald Malcolm Colbourne, Seaman, Stanmore

William John Cribben, Stoker, Deal

Charles Stanley Dawson, Seaman, Leicester

Henry Draper, Temp Skipper, Grimsby

Clarence Jesse Goddard, Seaman, Goring

Albert Edward Hall, Seaman, Lowestoft

Brian Ashton Johnson, Able Seaman, Manchester

George Samuel Love, Second Hand, Cleethorpes

William Marchington, Seaman, Rochdale

James Edward Massey, Cook, Hendon

Hugh McGinty, Stoker, Crookedholm, Ayrshire

Thomas Finn McWhirter, Seaman, Campbelltown

Thomas Pinkerton, Stoker, Aberdeen

Clifford Scott, Stoker, Clayton, Lancs

Charles Robert Seago, Kent