Cornwell, the only member of the gun crew still at his station, looking at the gun sights and waiting for orders, had been pierced through the chest by steel shrapnel. The damaged ship steamed to the port of Immingham and Cornwell was taken to hospital in nearby Grimsby, where he died on 2 June, before his mother could get there.

His body was taken home in a navy coffin and buried in a common grave, marked by a wooden sign with the number 323, in Manor Park cemetery in Newham, east London.

Makes you proud to be a bigot doesn't it.

I wonder how it must have felt to be a Londoner in the Falaise Gap killing all the Hitler Youths sent in to reinforce the Wehrmacht 30 years later.