Sheldon,+RJ

SHELDON, Robert John Seaman O.S., P/JX 269534, Royal Navy, H.M.S "Veteran", a destroyer, sunk by U404 in the North Atlantic on the 26th September 1942. Escort for a comvoy of eight ex- US River and Coastal steamers, all chartered by the Ministry of War Transport, bound from New York to the U.K. Three of the boats and the "Veteran" were sink by U. Boats. Son of John & Annie Sheldon of Ivy Bank, Haworth.

Named on the Haworth (St Michael & A.A.) memorial, and the Haworth R.B.L. memorial and the Keighley W.W. 2 Memorial.

No known grave- Commemorated on the Portsmouth Memorial, Face 1.