George Hayward

The 1939 Register records him as a Royal Navy pensioner. He had been a stoker on HMS Glasgow, the only ship to survive the Battle of Coronel during the First World War. He would recall how they had burnt the wooden fittings of the ship, having consumed all the coal, in the escape to the Falkland Islands from the German ships under Admiral Graf von Spee. He may have worked as a stoker at the Kingston Power Station prior to the war. This had been built in 1928 to supply power to the Isle of Wight. It was not connected to the mainland until 1949.

He was the oldest member of the Patrol and Stan Williams recalled he was a little slower but, "what he lacked in mobility he more than made up in 'esprit de corps'". He would say, "Now then me lads, no letting the side down, orders is orders".