Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Raymond Charles Kane was the son of Charles John and Elsie Kane of South Wigston, Leicestershire.
He was on board the HMS Royal Oak when it was sunk by a German torpedo on 14/10/1939, and he died aged 18 years.

At 0116 hours on 14/10/1939, the German submarine fired a spread of three torpedoes at HMS Royal Oak and the British seaplane tender HMS Pegasus lying at anchor in the arbour of Scapa Flow, then turned and fired a stern torpedo at 0121 hrs. Prien claimed a hit on the seaplane tender, misidentified as HMS Repulse, but one of the torpedoes apparently hit the starboard anchor chain of HMS Royal Oak and both targets were undamaged.
At 0123 hours, the U-boat fired a second spread of three torpedoes of which two hit HMS Royal Oak on the starboard side and caused a magazine to blow up. The battleship rolled over and sank in 19 minutes. 833 of the crew were killed. 386 of the 420 survivors, including the Commanding Officer, were rescued by the drifter HMS Daisy II which had been alongside as tender (uboat.net)
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Submitted by J. Parrott, 2018