The older brother of Cyril, William had chosen a more conventional route for a true Filey man in that he, like all the others Cammish’s to die in the Second World War (excluding his brother), had stayed as a sailor in the Royal Naval Patrol Service.

          He was given the rating of Seaman and stayed aboard his vessel the H.M. Trawler Phineas Beard as they proceeded on their new duties of patrolling the North Sea and East Coast for enemy activity and for mines.

          On the day of his death the Phineas Beard’s crew, including William, were lost at sea and their bodies were never recovered along with any trace of what happened to them.  He is remembered on the Lowestoft Naval Memorial for all the Royal Naval Patrol Service seamen who lost their lives at sea but whose bodies were never found.  Just a matter of weeks before his final mission William had married a local girl, Mary Alice.