Dawton, Stoker Tom
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Dawton, Stoker Tom
 
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Tom Dawton served aboard H.M.S. Attentive 1.
Address
9 Calton Grove, Poole

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Place of Service
HMS Attentive spent most of the First World War as part of the Dover Patrol. On 7 September 1915 she became an early victim of air power. While supporting a naval bombardment of German positions at Ostend, she was bombed, suffering two killed and seven wounded. The air attack forced the squadron to briefly disperse, before returning to carry out the bombardment. She took part in the famous Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918 before escorting convoys to Gibraltar. She spent a few months off Murmansk, North Russia, supporting British forces in the Russian Civil War and was paid off in December 1918

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Wartime Organisation
Royal Navy
Subdivision
- Naval Ship
Rank
Stoker 1st Class
Service Number
K39516
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