Name
Peter Edward Haxton
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
12/07/1943
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Seaman
P/JX 160630
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Brissenden
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 73, Column 2.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was P/JX 160630 and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records show that he was serving on RMS. ‘Brissenden’ which cannot be found in other naval records. It was probably H.M.S. ‘Brissenden’ which was a ‘Hunt’ Class Destroyer and on the 11th July 1943 combined with the Destroyer H.M.S. ‘Blankney’ to occupy Pozzallo with an improvised landing force as part of the landings on Sicily known as Operation ‘Husky’. It is most likely that he lost his life during these operations.
He has no known grave, but the sea and is remembered on Panel 73, Column 2 of the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to the Missing.
He was the son of William John and Elizabeth Margaret Haxton of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Dictionary of Disasters at Sea’ by C. Hocking, ‘Chronicles of the War at Sea’ by J. Rohwer & G. Hummelchen
