| WW2 Memorial Profiles for West Mersea
JOHN WESTLY BUSK
Midshipman
Royal Navy
HMS NORFOLK
Died 16 March 1940 age 18
Buried Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery - Orkney
Son of Lt Col Edmund Westly Busk M.C., Royal Tank Regt., and Kathkeen Maynard Busk, West Mersea.
John was born 1922. 1 Jan 1939 he was a Special entry - Naval Cadet. When he died, probate was granted to his mother, at The Grange, Chelmondiston, Suffolk.
Killed on a raid by the Luftwaffe on Scapa Flow when heavy cruiser H.M.S. NORFOLK was damaged
Commonwealth War Graves Commission record John's parents as being from West Mersea, but no record has been found of them on the Island
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