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Another family involved in WW2, this time a father and son called Hunter of Chevington Crescent.

The son was Herbert Goward Hunter, presumed dead on 12 September 1944 (recorded on the Chevington memorial) and his father William Brown Hunter.

According to the Duke School Book of Remembrance, Herbert, born in 1920, was a keen sportsman, and had a trial at Arsenal. He was an estate worker at Eshott and joined the Territorials when he was 18. He went with the 9th Battalion RNF to France. His father was in the same unit. Herbert was evacuated but his father was captured. A newspaper article about Herbert's younger brother in 1940 stated that the father was a POW in Germany and his brother missing at Narvik.
The Book of Remembrance reports that Herbert went to Singapore and was reported missing 15 Feb 1942. Later he was reported lost at sea on 12 Sept 1944 from a Japanese transport ship en route for Japan. It was torpedoed by the United States Navy.

His father is listed as a prisoner of war at Stalag 344, Lamdorf, Germany. The father would have been about 43 when captured.