Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Website
In Memory of
Eric Leonard Hoskins DSM
Leading Seaman
C/SSX 15125
H.M.S. Martin, Royal Navy
who died on
Tuesday, 10th November 1942. Age 27.
Additional Information:
Son of Percy and Margaret Annie Hoskins, of Elham, Kent.
Commemorative Information
Memorial:
CHATHAM MEMORIAL, Kent, United Kingdom
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
52, 2.
Location:
The Memorial overlooks the town of Chatham and is approached by a steep path from the
Town Hall Gardens.
Information about HMS Martin
Destroyer of the M class
| Navy: | The Royal Navy |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | M |
| Pennant: | G 44 |
| Built by: | Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Parsons |
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 23 Oct, 1939 |
| Launched: | 12 Dec, 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 4 Apr, 1942 |
| Lost: | 10 Nov, 1942 |
| History: | HMS Martin (Cdr. C.R.P. Thomson, DSO, RN) was torpedoed and sunk by the
German submarine U-431
northeast of Algiers, Algeria in position 37.53N, 03.57E. 161 Officers and
men went down with the ship. There 63 survivors. Hit by U-boat |