Napier Robert David Sub-Lieutenant (A), died age 21, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, on board H.M.S. Ruler in the Pacific Ocean. Son of Henry Andrew Muter Napier and Catherine Frances Sydney Napier, of Bacons Farm Henham, Essex. The address given for his family was Broxted
The principal base of the Fleet Air Arm, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, was chosen as the site for the memorial to almost 2,000 men of that service who died during the Second World War and who have no known grave.
A newspaper article on 6 June 1945 states that he was killed during operations at sea. The address given for his family was Moor End Broxted.
The data is the editor’s interpretation of documents from the:
The National Archives London, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Ancestry and Find My Past.