A Fleet Air Arm casualty group to Petty Officer (Airman) W.S. Shotton, Fleet Air Arm, a Telegraphist Air Gunner of a Swordfish of 836 Squadron who died in service aboard the Merchant Armed Cruiser S.S. Empire McCabe on 27th May 1944 when a rocket accidentally fired by an aircraft on the flight deck exploded killing him. A veteran of Ark Royal’s 1941 service in the Mediterranean, he has no known grave and is now remembered on the Lee-On-Solent Memorial.
Group of 4: 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal. Mounted on card for display
Condition: mounted on card for display, Good Very Fine
Along with:
Director of Navy Accounts addressed to Mrs W. Shotton, 93 The Grove, Chalvey, Slough, Buckinghamshire.
Typed casualty slip to William Stanley Shotton
William Stanley Shotton was born in South Shields in November 1921 and states saw service as a Petty Officer Airman and as a Telegraphist Air Gunner of a Swordfish with 836 Squadron aboard the Merchant Armed Cruiser S.S. Empire McCabe and died in service on 27th May 1944 when a rocket accidentally fired by an aircraft on the flight deck exploded killing him. He is noted as having earlier been a veteran of the attacks by the Ark Royal in the Mediterranean prior to her loss in 1941. Having no known grave he is now remembered on the Lee-On-Solent Memorial where he is noted as the son of William and Hilda Shotton of Whitburn, County Durham.
