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Military service
Age:
34
Rank:
Carpenter
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
HS Ramb IV (London, England) (2174)
Birth:
January 1, 1908
Bootle, England
Death:
May 10, 1942
Mediterranean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
An Italian motor vessel (MV) captured by the Royal Navy in the Red Sea, the British Admiralty converted her into a hospital ship (HS) and kept her name. On 10 May 1942, she sailed from Tobruk, Libya, to Alexandria, Egypt, with 360 medical staff and wounded patients. It was attacked by German Ju-88 aircraft. Due to a violent fire, it had to be abandoned and sunk by the Royal Navy's HMS Kipling (F91) off El Alamein, Egypt. The attack killed 155 patients and 10 crew members.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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