Photo supplied by Tony Martin
Tony Martin has supplied the information and the photo.
On the reverse of the attached photo is:
"Beirut – July 1944.
PO (Coxn Pat Crossey) ML350
wounded at Sousse in 1943
and killed on ML350 in action
off Kalymnos, Jan. 1945.
Buried in Simi.
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Bob Montgomery
Photo taken just before
returning to the Aegean
for a raid in Simi 12/13 July ‘44."
Petty Officer Crossey's story is told in "The War of the Motor Gun Boats – One Man’s Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces 1943-1945"; A.J. Chapman; Pen and Sword; 2013; ISBN: 9781783462247
Patrick Fenwick Crossey is remembered in Blaydon on B111.01 and on our List of Ships’ crews.