[net-gold] WAR: WORLD WAR II : HISTORY: GREAT BRITAIN: Youngest World War II Service Casualty Identified
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WAR: WORLD WAR II :
HISTORY: GREAT BRITAIN:
Youngest World War II Service Casualty Identified
Youngest World War II Service Casualty Identified
Page last updated at 00:57 GMT, Friday, 5 February 2010
BBC News
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8498113.stm>
A 14-year-old boy has been confirmed as the UK's youngest known service
member to have been killed in WWII.
Reginald Earnshaw was aged 14 years and 152 days when he died under enemy
fire on the SS North Devon on 6 July 1941.
The merchant navy cabin boy had lied about his age, claiming he was 15, so
he could join the war effort.
His sister Pauline Harvey, 77, will mark his birthday on Friday by laying
flowers at his grave in Comely Bank Cemetery, Edinburgh.
Official confirmation of Mr Earnshaw's age by the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission (CWGC) was made after his sister responded to their nationwide
appeal for his relatives to come forward.
During the graveside visit, Mrs Harvey and her great-niece Jenny will also
meet relatives of Douglas Crichton and Reg Mitchell, who were also killed
in the attack off the Norfolk coast.
Mrs Harvey, a retired teacher from Epworth in North Lincolnshire, was nine
when her brother was killed.
She said: "Reggie's death at such a young age and after just a few months
at sea came as a great shock to the whole family.
"I am immensely grateful to so many people who helped research my
brother's forgotten story, and to the War Graves Commission for providing
his grave with a headstone."
Shipmate's fight for fallen pal, 14
[Includes Video]
Page last updated at 14:59 GMT, Friday, 5 February 2010
BBC News
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8500459.stm>
An 86-year-old former serviceman has seen his fallen wartime comrade
recognised as the youngest serving victim of World War Two.
Alf Tubb, from Swansea, was an 18-year-old machine gunner on a ship when
it was bombed by German aircraft in July 1941.
<snip>
His effort has seen Reggie confirmed as the UK's youngest known service
member to have been killed in WWII.
14-year-old confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death
By GREGORY KATZ
The Associated Press
Friday, February 5, 2010; 12:39 PM
Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2010/02/05/AR2010020501321.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ydyzq3b>
LONDON -- He lied about his age to get into the service, and was rewarded
for his gallantry with an early death.
Now, on what would have been his 82nd birthday, Reginald Earnshaw's sad
place in history has finally been acknowledged.
On Friday, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission officially recognized
him as the youngest known British service casualty in World War II.
The lad lived just 14 years and 152 days. He died when German planes
attacked the SS Devon, the ship he was on, off the east coast of England
on July 6, 1941. He had only served for several months.
Officials had been slow to recognize his status because they did not have
official proof of his date of birth, making it impossible to prove he was
actually younger than Raymond Steed, who died at 14 years and 207 days.
Earnshaw was serving as a Merchant Navy cabin boy when he died. He had
told authorities he was 15, the minimum allowable age, after leaving
school to help with the war effort.
His younger sister, Pauline Harvey, placed flowers at his grave at Comely
Bank Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Friday and met with the aging
relatives of other Merchant Navy sailors killed during the same attack.
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