Kenneth Victor Deacon
Forename(s): Kenneth Victor
Surname: Deacon
Date of birth: 24 Sep 1914
Date of death: 3 Jun 1942
Date of burial: 11 Jun 1942
Age at death: 27 years
Address: 'St. Margarets' Yarborough Road, E. Cowes
Died at: South Shields
Section: E - Cemetery map
Plot No: 220 Section map of plots
Burial Register entry: Kingston 11204
Killed in explosion during HMS Suffolk refit South Shields
together with:
COX, Frank H, Ty/Act/Stoker Petty Officer, C/KX 84647, killed.
Also in this plot:
Kingston Cemetery
Image by: Ken Wheeler
Inscription
K V DEACONENGINE ROOM ARTIFICER 3RD CL
RN C/MX 48212
H M S 'SUFFOLK'
3rd JUNE 1942 AGE 27
LOST HIS LIFE
BY AN EXPLOSION ON BOARD
WHILE DOING HIS DUTY
DUTY WELL DONE
Transcription by: KW