Captain Loxley's death with Formidable was followed by another wartime loss in his family. His son Peter N. Loxley was killed in an aircraft accident on 1 February 1945 while travelling to represent Britain at the Yalta Conference. The postscript connects the ship's First World War loss to a second family bereavement near the end of the Second World War.
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The Loxley family’s losses across two world wars
A brief postscript connects Captain Loxley’s death with Formidable to his son Peter’s fatal journey to the Yalta Conference in 1945.