Info: Australian? Allied Unit, Lt. Henty Henty-Creer RNVR H.M. Chariot LXXVI. X5

Any information would be appreciated.




Need assistance on Who/Where/What/How for this man who is on the Australian Commemorative Roll which is for those "Australians" who died in other Allied Services. If proved not to be "Australian" their names will not be removed from the Commemorative Roll however their details will be updated accordingly.

I have researched the Air Force members but there are many more Land and Sea deaths in a myriad of different forces.

There is not a lot of information on these people that can be accessed easily and I ask your assistance to fill in at least some of the gaps.

Hopefully some relatives may see this thread and add more.

I will make a different thread for each along the way as they may tend to get lost if clumped together.

In Memory of
Lieutenant HENTY HENTY-CREER

Mentioned in Despatches


H.M. Chariot LXXVI. X5, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
who died
on 22 September 1943

Remembered with honour
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Fight for a hero denied a VC
Fight for a hero denied a VC

The Sydney Morning Herald - 20 July 1974
In February, 1944, a young Sydney born Royal Navy lieutenant was mentioned in despatches. For Lieutenant Henty Henty-Creer, 21, that was all- the only official recognition of his part in a heroic midget submarine attack on the giant German battleship, Admiral Von Tirpitz, in a Norwegian fjord five months before. The mission to cripple the 41,000-ton pride of the German Navy, code named "Operation Source", was vital: the Tirpitz had to be put out of action before it could wreak havoc on the Atlantic convoys. Repeated bombing attacks had failed, and the Tirpitz- surrounded by an elaborate defence network- was gaining a reputation as "unsinkable".


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X6 and X7 managed to drop their charges underneath Tirpitz, but were unable to make good their escape as they were observed and attacked. Both craft were abandoned and six crew survived to be captured. Although the fate of X5 is unclear, it is believed to have been sunk by a direct hit from one of Tirpitz's four-inch guns before having had a chance to place her charges. In 2004, a saddle charge identical to those used by the X-class was found on the bottom of Kåfjord, a short distance from the site of the attack. Although it has not been positively identified, it is believed to be from the X5. In June 2011 the remains of a submarine believed to be X5 were detonated by the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Biography - Reginald Charles Ferrers Creer - Australian Dictionary of Biography

Henty Henty-Creer's Father and Uncle (Identical Twins) were naval officers and great seafarers by the look of it during the wars.
Doubts have been cast on HentyX-Creers actual participation in the atXtack, but meticulous research over the years has shown with little shadow of doubt that he was there. Sworn affidaXvits from Norwegians state that they saw a midget submarine making its way out of the fiord after the attack (the other two were sunk on the spot) while a German explosives expert informed the authors in a letter that the damage done to Tirpitz and recorded in the ships log, could not have been inflicted by only two midget submarines each armed with two mines.