Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

He was killed, aged 19, along with all but 39 men from the combined compliment of sailors on HMS Glorious [a pre-war cruiser converted to an aircraft carrier], two destroyer escorts [Ardent and ...