RN Funerals
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 12:31 pm
Cyril Banks
Sailors and veterans wanted to support Essex D-Day veteran’s funeral
Are you able to give a few hours of your time to give D-Day veteran Cyril Banks the send-off his service deserves?
The D-Day, Arctic Convoy and Pacific Fleet veteran died earlier this month aged 97.
Friends would like a strong military presence at his funeral in Harlow at the end of May – be they serving or veterans/associations – as Cyril was proud of his achievements and never forgot his shipmates.
Born in January 1925 in Birchanger, Bishops Stortford, Cyril Banks enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1943, aged 18, and joined the minesweeper HMS Ready as an anti-aircraft gunner.
Cyril’s first months at sea were spent in the harsh Arctic convoys and in the North Sea patrolling for U-boats before moving to the Channel to support the invasion of Europe.
Ready was committed clearing the approaches to what would become Gold Beach, leading the 8th Minesweeping flotilla.
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His funeral takes place at 4.30pm on May 30 at Parndon Wood Road Crematorium, Harlow, Essex, CM19 4SF.
At - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... D4jsKrQvQI
Sailors and veterans wanted to support Essex D-Day veteran’s funeral
Are you able to give a few hours of your time to give D-Day veteran Cyril Banks the send-off his service deserves?
The D-Day, Arctic Convoy and Pacific Fleet veteran died earlier this month aged 97.
Friends would like a strong military presence at his funeral in Harlow at the end of May – be they serving or veterans/associations – as Cyril was proud of his achievements and never forgot his shipmates.
Born in January 1925 in Birchanger, Bishops Stortford, Cyril Banks enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1943, aged 18, and joined the minesweeper HMS Ready as an anti-aircraft gunner.
Cyril’s first months at sea were spent in the harsh Arctic convoys and in the North Sea patrolling for U-boats before moving to the Channel to support the invasion of Europe.
Ready was committed clearing the approaches to what would become Gold Beach, leading the 8th Minesweeping flotilla.
Continues and ending with:
His funeral takes place at 4.30pm on May 30 at Parndon Wood Road Crematorium, Harlow, Essex, CM19 4SF.
At - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... D4jsKrQvQI