-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Hood Rolls of Honour
Memorials to Men Lost in the Sinking of Hood, 24th May 1941
Updated
22-Dec-2006
-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Hood Rolls of Honour
Memorials to Men Lost in the Sinking of Hood, 24th May 1941
Updated
22-Dec-2006
In Remembrance of
SIDNEY JASPER HERBERT
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Captain (E)
Date Joined Hood: 22 November 1939
Biographical Information: Sidney was the son of Patrick Coghlan Herbert Herbert and Beatrice Eugenie née Selwyn, born at Ashstead, Surrey in 1894. His eldest brother was Sir Alan Patrick Herbert the MP and writer who, in his autobiography wrote: 'Sidney Jasper was robust and broad, more of a Herbert, with a face made for the Navy and the shoulders of a Rugby forward. He did go into the Navy through the long routine of those days, Osborne (at twelve), and Dartmouth, and he did play Rugger for the Navy. But he had brains as well. He served in submarines in the 1914 war. He was one of the first twelve seaman officers selected by Lord Fisher to specialise in engineering. He went down in the Hood, 1941, then Captain [E] to the Squadron. He had often tried to explain to me his own plans for making H.M. ships less "sinkable" and the trouble he was having trying to impress those on high. I have no idea of the worth of his plans: but they went down with him in the suddenly-sunk Hood.'
Sidney was serving as the Engineering Officer of the Battle Cruiser Squadron at the time of his loss. We have no additional information.
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