Sub-Lieutenant (A) Anthony Frederick HALLETT (1936)

HMS Furious, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Born 19 November 1917 in Southgate, Middlesex
Killed in action 30 June 1941, aged 23
Commemorated on the Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire.

Anthony Hallett was the son of Basil Frederick Hallett and Kate, née Mitchener, of Southgate, Middlesex.

He was educated at Caldicott Prep School, Farnham Royal, and The Leys School, Cambridge, where he was a House Prefect, a noted scholar, and won Second Colours at Hockey, Football and Swimming.

Whilst at Merton he captained the College’s hockey team; he took a third in Jurisprudence in 1939.

Whilst serving with 807 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, he was killed in a deck accident on board the aircraft carrier HMS Furious; a Hawker Hurricane which was being sent to the besieged island of Malta crashed during launch, and its fuel tank caught fire, killing nine men and injuring four others.