PONTEFRACT IN 1952

2nd May 1952
Local Seaman Killed off Korea

The Admiralty announced on Friday that Able Seaman Alan Greenwood, of Halfpenny Lane, Pontefract, had been killed in action off Korea in the destroyer Concord. His father Major F.R. Greenwood, of the Royal Army Educational Corps, at present in Hong Kong has been informed. When Able Seaman Greenwood met his father in Hong Kong recently they had a celebration party, They spent their leaves together during the past year.

Born at Winchester, Able Seaman Greenwood had lived at Pontefract for seven years, and worked at the Crescent Cinema, Pontefract, before joining the Navy when he was aged 15 just over four years ago. He attended the Pontefract Secondary Boy’s Modern School. It is a tragic coincidence that only this week the Express received a letter from him, dated April 10th. It contained a photograph of himself and two other members of the crew of H.M.S. Concord.

John Womersley of Cutsyke Crest, Castleford, who is the ships butcher and has been in the Navy over nine years, and Geoffrey Lindley, of Merewood Road, Castleford. The former previously worked at Whitwood Colliery and the latter at Glass Houghton Colliery.