Sub-Lieutenant Eric Oloff De Wet, D.S.C.
Royal Navy. HMS Narborough
12/01/1918
Mentioned in Despatches
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Distinguished
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1914-15
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Son
of Thomas Oloff de Wet, C.B.E., Capt. R.N. (Retd.) and Elizabeth de Wet (nee Bradstreet),
of Le Colombia Manor, Jersey. Served in H.M.S. "Queen" on staff of Admiral
Mark Kerr.
Reported drowned, aged 20 years
He was born on February, 28, 1897 and was the oldest
of 3 boys and 2 girls
Lost on HMS Narborough together with their sister destroyer
HMS Opal in a storm on the Pentland Skerries. There
was only 1 survivor out of a compliment of 160 on both
ships.
Admiral Mark EF Kerr CB,CVO wrote to his parents "Had
he survived he would have become the youngest British
Admiral" - "Famile de Wet" - HC (Henk)
de Wet
