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Mount Vernon Cemetery, Thurso, Caithness

 
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Tonym



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Location: East Sussex

PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:51 pm    Post subject: Mount Vernon Cemetery, Thurso, Caithness Reply with quote

If anybody is doing a survey in the above cemetery I would be most grateful for a photograph of the grave of SISTER CHRISTINA JACK, Q.A.I.M.N.S. grave number - H222.

Will forward my email by PM if you can oblige

Tony
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Adam Brown



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Location: Edinburgh

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are five Norwegian war graves in the cemetery.

DAHL, Anton Martinius
Rank: Smører (Greaser)
Unit: Handelsflåten (Merchant Navy)
Date of Birth: 09.05.1900
Date of Death: 07.02.1944
Grave Plot:E 37

EHNEBOM Oskar Thommy
Rank: Stuert (Steward)
Unit: Handelsflåten (Merchant Navy)
Date of Birth: 05.02.1916
Date of Death: 07.02.1944
Grave Plot:E 37

ELLEFSEN Peter
Rank: Maskinist (Engineer)
Unit: Handelsflåten (Merchant Navy)
Date of Birth: 13.08.1884
Date of Death: 07.02.1944
Grave Plot:E 37

STORSTEEN Haakon
Rank: Maskinist (Engineer)
Unit: Handelsflåten (Merchant Navy)
Date of Birth: 13.01.1883
Date of Death: 07.02.1944
Grave Plot:E 37

And one unknown Norwegian in grave E36
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kenmorrison



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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2014 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/freidig.html

20 men died when Freidig sank on Febr. 7-1944 after her cargo had shifted in a storm with heavy seas while on a voyage from Aberdeen to Liverpool with a cargo of 1624 tons rye.........
Thurso Lifeboat found 5 dead men on a raft and recovered them, 2 were rescued from a second raft, but there was no trace of any others........

There's a Mess Room Boy Patrick Mervyn Nutt listed as having died on the date Freidig went down on the Commonwealth War Graves Comm. website. No ship is mentioned, but Billy Mc.Gee, England has been able to confirm that this was Freidig's messboy. He was born on Aug. 7-1927, which made him 16 when lost, not 17 as stated. He may have been 1 of the bodies recovered by the Thurso lifeboat, because he's buried at Thurso Cemetery.
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