Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Sedgwick served with the served with the Base Signals and Radar Unit. He 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; LAC J.H. Shickle LAC E.P. Spence and LAC P. Wardrobe
Maurice Sedgwick is remembered at Darlington on D40.035 (where his name is spelled "Sedgewick") and D40.043
