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In memory of:

Surgeon William Frothingham Roach

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Military service

Age: 64
Rank: Surgeon
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Carare (Liverpool, England)(147345)
Birth: September 16, 1875 Montreal, Québec
Death: May 28, 1940 Bristol Channel

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
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Son of Charles Theophilus Metcalf Roach and Matilda Short from Montréal, Québec. Husband of Ethel Norah Bibby from Garston, Lancashire, England.

On 28 May 1940, the Carare was sailing in ballast from Avonmouth, England, to Jamaica and then on to Colombia when she hit a mine in the Bristol Channel, England, where she sank with seven crew members, position 51°17'N/03°44'W. 90 sailors, including the captain, survived, as did 26 passengers.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 218 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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