LOTT, Norman Lloyd
| Service Number: | 28608 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 December 1945 |
| Last Rank: | Yeoman Signaller |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Warrnambool |
| Born: | South Yarra, Victoria, 15 March 1928 |
| Home Town: | South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Messenger |
| Died: | Missing presumed drowned after ship hit a mine, Cockburn Reef, North Queensland, Australia,, 13 September 1947, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland Cairns Cemetery Plymouth Naval Memorial |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cardwell HMAS Warrnambool Memorial Plaque |
Non Warlike Service
| 11 Dec 1945: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Yeoman Signaller, 28608, HMAS Warrnambool |
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Peacekeeping Service
| 14 Sep 1947: | Involvement 28608 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Signalman Norman Lloyd Lott (Service No:28608) enlisted in the RAN as an Ordinary Seaman on 11 December 1945 on board HMAS Cerberus. Rated Signalman on 11 February 1947, he was on board HMAS Warrnambool, on bomb and mine clearance duties in the vicinity of Cockburn Reef, 300 kms north of Cairs, QLD on 13 September 1947. HMAS Warrnambool was part of the 20th Mine Sweeping Flotilla when she hit a mine. According to official reports, Signalman Lott was thrown oveboard and disappeared, to be listed as Missing.
Norman was born in South Yarra, Victoria in 1928, fifth of six children of Walter John Lott (b1878 in Branxholme, Victoria) and Selena Ethel May Williams (b1888 in Castlemaine, Victoria). Walter (a Blacksmith) and Selina married in 1914 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family, and Walter worked as a Blacksmith and later as a Gas Maker.
Norman worked in Melbourne as a Messenger before enlisting in the RAN at seventeen years of age - he was 19 years of age in 1947 when he was listed as Missing, presumed dead.