Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
LAC Wardrobe was killed when L.S.T. 420 (Landing Ship, Tank) was sunk off Ostend. It had left Dover with a party of men, trucks and supplies for R.A.F. units in Belgium. When it arrived off the Belgian coast, it encountered a severe storm and the captain decided to return to Dover. Soon after turning, it struck a mine off Ostend and sank. 14 Officers and 224 other ranks were killed, with only 31 survivors.
Among others who died on L.S.T. 420 were LAC Laurence Scanlon AC1 A.S. Alderson Ft.Lt. G.J. Binks Sgt. M. Sedgwick LAC J.H. Shickle and LAC E.P. Spence
Peter Wardrobe is remembered in Gateshead on G39.015
