Richard Spruytenburg

Ordinary Seaman Richard Frederik Spruytenburg was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born the son of Dutch-born Hendrik, who at the time of his naturalization in 1931 was a manager of a bacon company,The London Gazette (33687), p. 830. 6 February 1931, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2015. and Margery Spruytenburg, of Pontefract.
Aged 21, Spruytenburg died on 15 June 1942, when the destroyer HMS Airedale was repeatedly bombed by German Stukas while escorting the Malta Convoy Operation 'Vigorous'.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Spruytenburg, Richard Frederik, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of Dutch descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Category:Ordinary Seamen