David Goodey

David Goodey’s father, Albert William Goodey, joined the Royal Navy on 26 April 1938 at the age of 20\. Having completed training at Chatham as a Rating in the engineering division he took his first commission in the new Hero-class destroyer HMS Havock on 29 September 1938\. Albert remained part of Havoc’s crew until 14 November 1941 – just five months before she was lost.