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Petty Officer Steward Salvatore Zarb was a Maltese sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.

He was born in Malta, the son of John and Mary Zarb

Aged 35, Zarb died on 8 June 1940 when the aircraft carrier HMS Glroious sank in the North Sea, with the loss of more than 1,200 crew, after a battle with the German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

Zarb has no known grave and is commemorated by the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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