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Angus Romkey
In memory of:
Chief Officer Angus Romkey
December 7, 1939
Turks and Caicos Islands, Tanzania
Military Service
46
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
SV A.W. Chisholm (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) (141698)
Additional Information
April 4, 1893
West Dublin, Nova Scotia
Son of Rufus Romkey and Margaret Letitia Reinhardt of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Husband of Violet Marguerite Rieser of Petite Rivière, Lunenburg. Father of J. Murray Barclay, Charmaine Eleonora Peterson and Imogene Georgina Romkey.
He died of an unspecified cause at sea off the Turks and Caicos Islands, West Indies, where his body was submerged. His name is engraved on the family headstone in the Brookside Cemetery in West Dublin, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Commemorated on Page 220 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
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