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Frank Gordon LEPPARD Born: 1925 Parents: Son of Frank Dodd and Lilly Susannah Leppard of North Bersted Sussex School Years: 1936 – 1940 Chichester High School for Boys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Armed Forces Record Service Rank: Ordinary Telegraphist Service Number: P/JX 429385 Service Record: Royal Navy Service Base: HMS Asphodel Date of Death: 10 March 1944 HMS “Asphodel” – Corvette At 0154 hours on 10 March 1944, the German submarine U-575 attacked convoy SL-150, which was combined with convoy MKS-4 north of the Azores and sank the corvette HMS Asphodel (T/Lt Michael Albert Halliday RNZNR) using a Gnat torpedo. Only five survivors of the crew of ninety-seven were picked up by the Corvette HMS Clover. Old Boy Frank Gordon LEPPARD did not survive the attack. He was nineteen. Commemorated Chichester High School for Boys Chichester War Memorial Royal Naval Memorial, Portsmouth, Hampshire The Fate of U-boat 575 - (Commander Obit. Wolfgang Boehmer survived and died in 2006) Following the sinking of HMS Asphodel on the 10 March the U-boat was hunted for 18 hours but finally escaped. A few days later on the 13th her luck ran out and she was sunk by the combined efforts of Canadian Frigate HMCS Prince Rupert, American destroyer USS Hobson and destroyer escort USS Haverfield, British Wellington Bomber of 172 Squadron, two B17 Flying Fortresses from 206 & 208 Squadrons plus an Avenger from USS Bogue. Depth charges were used. The U-boat was finally forced to the surface. Crew fatalities finally totalled 18 and there were 37 survivors. Under three commanders in her ten patrols, U-575 had sunk eight convoy ships and a warship during a total of 463 days at sea. .

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