WAS ON THE HOOD
CLAIM BY NAVY DESERTER
POSSIBLE FOURTH SURVIVOR
It was believed that there were only three survivors from the British battle-cruiser Hood, but in a London police court a stoker, Jack Charles Reginald Silk, 23, who pleaded guilty to desertion and to having a false identity card, sakl lie was the fourth survivor.
A policeman who questioned Silk in the street because lie appeared to he of military age, and then arrested him, gave evidence that Silk told him he Avas aboard the Hood when she was blown up. He drifted on a raft for three days before he was picked up by a trawler. Silk landed at Liverpool, but. clid not report himself as a survivor.
Silk, from the dock, said he was officially still "missing," believed killed.
It has been established that Silk's name appeared thus in the official casualty list. The policeman who gave evidence said lie verified Silk as a member of. the Hood's complement, but the magistrate adjourned Lho ease for a week, in which inquiries will be made as to whether Silk was a deserter before the Hood left her last port of call or whether as he is now charged, he deserted "from the day the Hood sank."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 7, 21 September 1942, Page 3
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208WAS ON THE HOOD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 7, 21 September 1942, Page 3
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