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Son of Joseph and Mary Oddy. Husband of Sarah Annie Douglas of 154, Walton Village, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Father of Mary Iris Oddy.
On 6 December 1916, the Mount Temple, en route to Brest, France, was ordered to break down by the German corsair ship Moewe. Refusing to obey, she was bombarded with cannon fire, killing four sailors. The Germans opened the ship's holds and placed explosive charges in. She sank 620 nautical miles (713 miles/1,148 km) west of Fastnet Rock, a lighthouse island in south-eastern Ireland, with 710 horses for the army and 22 wooden boxes containing dinosaur artefacts. The 112 sailors were taken prisoner, transferred to the captured British freighter Yarrowdale and disembarked at Warnemünde, Germany, on 31 December. They were released in November 1918.
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Page 55 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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