Malvern College Second World War Casualty

Alexander William Lorne Chalmers

House and time at Malvern: 9, 1938 - 1940.

Regiment: R.N..
Died: 28 May 1944 aged 19 in . Killed near French Coast.
Cemetery: Chatham Naval Memorial 75, 1.

Son of William Kennedy Chalmers and Jean Chalmers, of Invershin, Sutherlandshire, and of Fern Point, Inverary, Argyll.
H.M.M.T.B. 732 Royal Navy
It was a motor torpedo boat accompanying a convoy, and was sunk by gunfire from the French escort destroyer La Combattante in the English Channel.
Details at wreck site

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