H.M.S. Dorsetshire sank on 5th April 1942 after an attack from Japanese reconnaissance aircraft dropping 250-550lb bombs about 200 miles southwest of Ceylon.
Royal Navy
D/JX 180584
Seventeen-year-old Edward Stanley McCorkell of Co. Tyrone died on 5th April 1942 when H.M.S. Dorsetshire came under attack from Japanese aircraft off Ceylon.
D/JX 156447
Able Seaman William Hugh Jackson of Ballyclare, Co. Antrim died on 5th April 1942 when H.M.S. Dorsetshire came under attack from Japanese aircraft off Ceylon.