Lt John Godwin RNVR. Operation Checkmate. Executed Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

Commander of Operation Checkmate. An Argentinian in the RNVR. Captured with members of No.14 (Arctic) Commando whilst on a raiding party (Operation Checkmate 28th Apr.43) at Kopervik, Norway. Taken prisoner and later executed at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

In Memory of Lieutenant John Godwin R.N.V.R.
H.M.S. Quebec., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
who died age 25 on 02 February 1945
Son of Charles Algernon and Eva Mary Godwin, of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Remembered with honour Portsmouth Naval Memorial.