Herbert Leo Power - St Margaret - Hunningham, Warwickshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

A memorial plaque to Herbert Leo Power, killed in WWII, on the north wall of the chancel (below the WWI plaque) of St Margaret's church, Hunningham.

The inscription reads -
1939-1945
HERBERT LEO POWER
23 JAN 1944 AGED 18
H.M.S. JANUS

Herbert Leo Power lived in Hunninghan, Warwickshire.
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Service no.: P/JX 384908
Regiment: Royal Navy

"On 23 January 1944 Janus was struck by one Fritz X guided bomb dropped by a German He 111 torpedo bomber and sank off the Anzio beachhead in western Italy (according to another version, she was sunk by Henschel Hs 293 glider bomb or a conventional torpedo). It took a mere twenty minutes for Janus to sink. Of her crew only 80 survived, being rescued by HMS Laforey and smaller craft. It was recorded that during her last duty Janus had laid down nearly 500 salvos of 4.7-inch shells in the first two days of the landings in support of allied troops."

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