William Benjamin HASLETT [1894-1947]
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Submitted by David on Thu, 2013-08-29 18:03
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
W B Haslett took part in the fighting in December 1941, but spent the occupation years in the civilian internment camp at Stanley. Philip Cracknell has a good write-up:
William Benjamin Haslett was born at the end of the Victorian century on 11th February 1894. He was a Marine Engineer from Belfast and that's all I know of him until he joined the Hong Kong Royal Naval Reserve on the outbreak of war in 1939 aged 45.
He was appointed to the Minewatching Branch as a Warrant officer, initially based at the ... Read more ...
