Sanderson,+George

Seaman, OS, P/JX 168766, Royal Navy H.M.S. "Daring", a destroyer which was one of the escort ships for a Norwegian Convoy. Sunk by U-23 (Otto Kretschmer) off Duncansby Head, Scotland on the 18th February 1940. Son of Harry Anderson and Christina Sanderson of Griffe View, Oakworth.
 * George Sanderson**



An old boy of Keighley Grammar School, he was formerly employed on the L.M.S. Railway at Keighley Station. He had only been on the "Daring" for one month following training Named on the Knowle Park Congregational Church Memorial and on the Keighley WW2 Memorial Plate in the Library.as well as the Oakworth Memorial and the Slack Lane Baptist Chapel memorial. See Keighley News, 24th Feb 1940 (Photo) Remembered on the Portsmouth Memorial, Panel 40, Column 1.