Sub Lieutenant Alfred Harvey CROSSLEY, SANF


Died on:   8 March 1943
Aged: 23
Alfred Harvey CROSSLEY
Photo: Special Forces Roll of Honour

Alfred Crossley was the son of Gerald and Nell Crossley, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.

He was a member of Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP).  On 7 March 1943 he was launched from HMS UNRIVALLED in a Folbot together with Lieutenant Victor De Kock (q.v.), to carry out reconnaissance of beaches in Sicily ahead of Operation Husky.  Nothing was seen of them again, despite a search for them the following night; they disappeared without trace and are assumed to have drowned.

Alfred Crossley is commemorated on the Special Forces Memorial.

For more information, see  COPP Survey.

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