Couple of interesting snippets from THE TIMES...

The Times, April 27, 2006
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OBITUARY : Captain Hugh Lee, October 12, 1916 - March 31, 2006

Signals officer who helped to sink a U-boat and was afterwards in the 
thick of action in the Mediterranean.

HUGH LEE's extraordinarily active career during the Second World War 
started when, as anti-submarine control officer of the destroyer Fortune, 
he was awarded the DSC for his part in sinking, on September 20, 1939, 
U27, which had been attacking trawlers off the Butt of Lewis. This was the 
second U-boat sinking of the war. The Germans were suffering from 
unreliability in their torpedoes, and U27's captain, Johannes Franz, was 
later able to smuggle out of his PoW camp to Admiral Dönitz the important 
intelligence that while firing at Fortune he had experienced three 
premature explosions.../snip/

...In March a decoded signal from Bletchley Park - coincidentally 
handled by Pauline Burrough, daughter of ViceAdmiral Burrough of Malta 
convoy fame and Lee's future wife - revealed to Cunningham that the 
Italian fleet aimed to attack troop convoys going to Greece. This set up 
the victory off Cape Matapan on March 27-28. Lee recalled the shocking 
sight as the Italian heavy cruisers Fiume and Zara were surprised at night 
and hit at short range by salvoes from battleships: "In a trice, they 
were blazing hulks.".../snip/

...In April 1945 Lee returned to England, marrying Pauline Burrough in 
September. In 1947 he commanded the naval wireless station at Kranji, 
Singapore, during the Malayan emergency. A tour at sea in the carrier 
Illustrious was followed by his becoming second-in-command of the signal 
school. From 1954 he had an enjoyable two years as director naval signals 
to the Indian Navy..../snip/

Lee is survived by his wife, Pauline, and by their three daughters.

Captain Hugh Lee, DSC, Commodore RN Barracks Portsmouth, 1966-68, was born 
on October 12, 1916. He died on March 31, 2006, aged 89.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2152887,00.html


The Times, May 5, 2006
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Lives Remembered

Mrs Pauline M. Lee writes: The obituary of my husband, Captain Hugh Lee 
(April 27), implied that while working at Bletchley Park I handled the 
signal that initiated Admiral Cunningham's victory off Cape Matapan in 
1941. I was indeed there at the time but in an administrative capacity and 
at no time did I see or handle secret material dealt with by the brilliant 
code-breakers.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1569314_1,00.html