Henry was the elder of two brothers who came to Wrekin College in 1932. He joined the Merchant Navy after leaving school making several voyages to India and the Americas.

Obtaining his second mate’s ticket in 1941 Henry was Third Officer on the SS Solon II, a cargo steamer of 4,561 tons built in 1925. Carrying a cargo of manganese ore and 200 tons of special copper she was torpedoed by German submarine U-508 and sunk north-east of Georgetown, British Guiana on Wednesday 2^nd December 1942. Seventy-five crew members were lost from a total of eighty-two, including 23 year old Henry.

Husband of Gwynedd Williams of Rhuddlan, Flintshire, N Wales. Elder son of Revd H.R. Williams & Mrs Williams.

A downloadable copy of this story is available here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’  relating to:-
Third Officer Henry Eyton WILLIAMS