Einar Lindh1

(2 March 1916 - 4 June 1941)
FatherEinar August Lindh1 (c 1889 - )
MotherLilly Louisa de Toms1 ( - c Sep 1970)
     Einar Lindh was born on 2 March 1916 at Norway, .1,2 He was the son of Einar August Lindh and Lilly Louisa de Toms.1 Einar Lindh died on 4 June 1941 at M V Wellfield, Cape Farewell, Atlantic Ocean, , at age 25; At 01.31 hours on 5 June 1941 the unescorted Wellfield (Master James Edward Smith), dispersed from convoy OB-328, was hit aft by two torpedoes from U-48 (Herbert Schultze) southeast of Cape Farewell. The tanker had been spotted at 14.09 hours the day before and was sunk by one G7e coup de grâce at 01.56 hours. The master and seven crew members were lost.3

Citations

  1. [S128] CWGC, online http://www.cwgc.org/default.asp, Einar Lindh, Second Officer in the Merchant Marine, son of Einar Lindh and of Lilly Louisa Lindh of Ashton, Lancashire. Died 04/06/1941, M.V. Wellfield (Newcastle-on-Tyne).
  2. [S254] Merchant Navy Seamen 1835-1941: Einar Lindh, born 2 Mar 1916 in Norway, drowned 7/6/41; discharge number R173794, BT348/9, CR1 and CR2.
  3. [S128] CWGC, online http://www.cwgc.org/default.asp, Einar Lindh, Second Officer in the Merchant Marine, son of Einar Lindh and of Lilly Louisa Lindh of Ashton, Lancashire. Died 04/06/1941, M.V. Wellfield (Newcastle-on-Tyne). Memorial - Tower Hill, London; Panel 118.