In Rhodes War Cemetery, Greece is the Commonwealth War Grave of P/JX 126527 Petty Officer Patrick Fenwick Crossey, serving on H.M. Motor Launch 350 with the Royal Navy who died 15/01/1945.

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 Mans Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces 1943-1945”; A.J. Chapman; Pen and Sword; 2013; ISBN: 9781783462247

Patrick Fenwick Crossey is remembered at Blaydon on B111.01 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.