Robert Chisholm Killed at sea while serving in the Royal Navy WW2

 Casualty details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission below right

  Name: CHISHOLM, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Stoker 1st Class
Regiment: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Anking.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 04/03/1942
Service No: P/KX 98893
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Mary Chisholm, of Wardley, Co. Durham.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 68, Column 2.
Cemetery: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL


HMS Anking:  Base and Accommodation Ship
Date of loss:  March 4th, 1942
Reason: Sunk in the by naval gunfire by Imperial Japanese Navy  heavy cruisers and destroyers of Vice-Admiral Kondo Nobutake's task force. These vessels included the heavy cruisers Maya, Takao and Atago (Sentai 4) along with the destroyers Arashi and Nowaki (part of Destroyer Division 4).
Other vessels sunk during this engagement included the RAN sloop Yarra and RFA oiler HMS Francol. (Dutch-East Indies)