Dedicated to perpetuate the proud memory of the men serving in HM Ships Glorious, Ardent & Acasta who lost their lives in the Norwegian Sea on 8th June 1940 and those who survived
Son of Brigadier-General Robert Byron Drury Blakeney C.M.G. D.S.O. and Dorothy Ellis Blakeney; husband of Mary Purdie Blakeney of West Brompton London.