Binns,+C

BINNS, Clarence Assistant Butcher, Merchant Navy, S.S. "Orcades", (Orient line) a troopship of 23,456 tons, routing Cape Town to U.K. Sunk by U-172, a type IXc submarine (Carl Emmerman) off Capetown with the loss of 48 lives,. Died 10th Oct 1942 age 35. Son of Louis and Elizabeth Binns of 12 Hospital Rd, Riddlesden, Keighley. He was a butcher on his own account in Riddlesden before joining the Merchant Navy in May 1942 See Keighley News, 28th November 1942. Commemorated on the Riddlesden Memorial Hall Tablet.

Tower Bridge Memorial, Panel 76.