Bottomley,+H

BOTTOMLEY, Horace Lance Bombadier, 4622279. No 3 Battery, 2nd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was in the Duke of Wellingtons regiment when called up. but he volunteered as a gunner on Defensively Equiped Merchant Ships (D.E.M.S) .Died 3rd April 1942, age 24 when his ship was bombed by enemy aircraft in Murmansk Harbour. Two ships were lost in this raid, viz SS "New Westminster City" and "Empire Starlight" both of which carried DEMS gunners Son of Timothy and Kate Bottomley of 31 Elizabeth St, Thwaites, Keighley. Prior to enlistment he was employed by Thomas Wilson, Spinners, Low Bridge Mills, Keighley. See Keighley News 18th April 1942 ( no Photo)

Murmansk Russian Cemetery Extension, grave 20