Royal Marine Auxiliary HMS Galatea, Royal Navy.

He was lost at sea following the sinking of HMS Galatea on 15 December 1941.

Aged 20, the son of John & Hannah Silverwood, of 23, Redvers Street, Burnley, Lancashire.

The Burnley Express of 3 January 1942. reported: -

Presumed Killed

"Missing presumed killed" is the official message received on Monday by Mrs Silverwood of 23 Redvers Street , Burnley concerning her 20 year old son John, an engine room artificer in the Royal Navy which he joined as a volunteer a little over 12 months ago. The last letter his mother received was on Christmas Eve, and at the time of writing he was then at sea with his ship.

As a boy he attended St Andrew's School, and from leaving there to joining the Navy he was employed at Burnley paper works. He attended St Peter's Church.

A younger brother R. Silverwood, with C. Waterworth was shown in a photograph which appreared in the "Express" a week ago of a six foot model battleship which they and their classmates at Abel Street Senior School have made for an exhibition during Burnley and district's £700,000 Warship Week. The father Mr John Silverwood, served in the Army throughout the last war.

Commemorated on the Plymouth Memorial.