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In memory of:

Second Engineer Douglas Kerr Jolly

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Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Second Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Taber Park (Montreal, Québec) (175574)
Birth: January 1, 1915 Edinburgh, Scotland
Death: March 13, 1945 North Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 105.
Additional information
Son of Hubert Rollo Jolly and Mary Chilsholm of Edinburgh, Scotland. Husband of Helen Carse Hamilton of Edinburgh. Father of Patricia Kay and Sandra Helen Jolly.

His name is also inscribed on the Scottish National War Memorial 1914-1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A Type XXVIIB submarine, Seehund Class, attacked the Taber Park on its voyage from the Tyne to London, England, and sank it off Aldeburgh in the North Sea, off Southwold, position 52°22'N/01°53'E, while it was part of the FS-1753 convoy from Methil to the Thames, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 261 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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