doris green sprite4@optusnet.com.au
December 27, 2008
Subject: Vampire WWII
Hello Mac.
I have been looking through your web site trying to get information on HMAS Vampire. My Mother was married to Petty Officer Louis Anton Gyss he died of injuries that he received in the boiler room of the Vampire. My Mother Doris Bowden is 83, she was married and widowed at the young age of 16 years. I hoped that there might be Photographs of crew members, and or of individuals. Any information that I can get would be most welcome..
Doris Green.
Doris,
Here is Louis' Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate:
No Surname Rank Service Number Date Of Death Age Regiment/Service Nationality Grave/Memorial Ref. Cemetery/Memorial Name
1 GYSS, LOUIS ANTON Petty Officer Stoker 22598 09/04/1942 21 Royal Australian Navy Australian Panel 73, Column 2. PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Page 1
On panel 73 Column 2 at the Plymouth Naval Memorial
RAN WW2 Certificate,
Stoker Petty Officer
LOUIS ANTON GYSS
22598
Service Royal Australian Navy
Date of Birth 7 July 1920
Place of Birth ALBERTON, SA
Date of Enlistment 15 November 1938
Home Port/Port Division MELBOURNE, VIC
Next of Kin GYSS, DORIS
Date of Death 9 April 1942
Posting on Death HMAS Vampire
See this URL: for sinking of Vampire
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/documents/No.%20205SriLanka2005.pdf
I could not find any crew photographs,
In Memory of
Petty Officer Stoker LOUIS ANTON GYSS
22598, H.M.A.S. Vampire, Royal Australian Navy
who died age 21
on 09 April 1942
Son of Louis and Nathalian Wilamena Gyss; husband of Doris May Gyss, of Royal Park, South Australia.
Remembered with honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Regards,
Mac
Copy of Nicks Christmas card to mum, Nick taken on the Vampire, Lous Anton Gyss squatting in the front of photo. Taken at Cerberus at Flinders
Hi Mac
Thank you so much for the photo of the memorial in Plymouth UK regarding Louis Anton Gyss. I Have loaded some of the very few photo,s that we have of him, they might be a help to someone else who knew of him.
Lous Anton Gyss squatting in the front of photo. Taken at Cerberus at Flinders
Nick's Christmas card to mum
Nick taken on the Vampire,
Kind regards Doris Green
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