Davey, Arthur Newton

Telegraphist

No. C/JX405712 HMS Sarawak, Royal Navy

Died as the result of an accident on Friday/Saturday 30/31 March 1945 (aged 20)

Buried:

Belfast City Cemetery (Glenalina Extension Section B.S. Grave 20)

Commemorated:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

BIOGRAPHY

Records vary as to his date of death – 30/31 March 1945.

Telegraphist Arthur Newton Davey was born on 27 September 1924 at Willesden, London, and he was a son of Alfred Harold and Emily Elizabeth Davey (nee Clarke) of Harlesden, Middlesex.

His last home address was 8 Milton Avenue, Willesden, London.

Telegraphist Arthur Newton Davey was accidentally drowned when a yacht capsized in Belfast Lough on 30 March 1945 in Belfast Lough; his body was found washed up at Craigavad, Holywood on 29 April 1945.

Telegraphist Arthur Newton Davey was buried on 3 May 1945 in Belfast City Cemetery (Glenalina Extension Section B.S. Grave 20).  The grave was owned by the ‘Commissioners for the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom’.  There is a personal inscription on his CWGC headstone:

THE CALL WAS SUDDEN

THE BLOW SEVERE

TO PART WITH ONE

WE LOVED SO DEAR