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Master Melville Bloomer

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Military service

Age: 47
Rank: Master
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Lord Kelvin (London, England) (139123)
Birth: May 1, 1893 London, England
Death: July 1, 1940 Halifax, Nova Scotia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Section M. Row 29. Lot 567
Additional information

His full name is Melville Henry Bloomer.

Son of Reverend Henry Bloomer and Edith Sarah Jecks, of London, England. Husband of Hylda Marion Morley, of Australia. Father of Peter Henry Edward, Julian Cyril Stephen and Celia Edith Marion Bloomer. In the First World War Hylda served in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps of the Royal Air Force.

He was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. He died on July 1, 1940, of a coronary thrombosis in Halifax.

HALIFAX (ST. JOHN'S) CEMETERY Nova Scotia, Canada

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