Leonard Crystall

Ordinary Signalman Leonard Sydney Crystall was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born at Hackney, the son of Lithuanian-born David and Elizabeth Crystall (née Solomons), of Middlesex.
Aged 18, Crystall died on 28 November 1943, when the Town-class light cruiser HMS Birmingham was torpedoed by the U-boat U-407 in the Mediterranean. Although seriously damaged, Birmingham survived the attack and reached the port of Alexandria.
Crystall is buried in Hadra War Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Crystall, Leonard Sydney, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Lithuanian descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Buried in Egypt
Category:Ordinary Signalmen