ALLAN REEKS KING

Born: 11th September 1915, Ipswich.

Died: 22nd November 1940; age: 25; Motor Launch 127 – mined and sunk off Clacton on Sea, Essex.

Residence: ‘Roisden’ 42, Belvedere Road, Ipswich.

Rank: Leading Stoker; Service Number: C/KX 86541.

Regiment: Royal Navy, H.M. Motor Launch 127.

Memorial Reference:

38.1.

Chatham Naval Memorial,

Chatham,

Kent.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of William Newton King & Ethel Adelaide King, of Ipswich.

Father: William Newton King, born 1876, Ipswich – a Mechanical Draughtsman.

Mother: Ethel Adelaide King (nee Reeks), born 1877, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Probate to William Newton King – father, a Draughtsman.

H.M. Motor Launch 127 was a Class Fairmile B motor launch, built by Brooke Marine Ltd., at Oulton Broad, Suffolk – ordered 8^th January 1940 and was commissioned 7^th October 1940. On the 22^nd November 1940 M.L. 127 (T/Lt. Eric Kneen R.N.V.R.) was mined and sunk off the coast of Clacton on Sea, Essex. All her 11 crew were lost.