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JIMMCGINLAY
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: Kilmore Cemetery, Dervaig - Island of Mull |
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Kilmore Cemetery
Dervaig - Island of Mull
The small old graveyard is situated on the B8073 on the hillside above Dervaig.
CWGC LINK:
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2047717&mode=1
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JIMMCGINLAY
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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CAMPBELL, John
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JIMMCGINLAY
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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DAVIES, W.D.
CWGC ENTRY:
Name: DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID
Initials: W D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Bibury (London)
Age: 40
Date of Death: 02/09/1940
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: KILMORE CEMETERY
More information on S.S. Bibury may be viewed here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/1940/09/02.htm
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JIMMCGINLAY
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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GILLIES, A.
CWGC ENTRY:
Name: GILLIES, ANGUS
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Pioneer Corps
Age: 37
Date of Death: 14/04/1944
Service No: 1703542
Additional information: Son of Hugh and Sarah Gillies, of Tobermory, Isle of Mull,.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: KILMORE CEMETERY
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JIMMCGINLAY
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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UNKNOWN SAILORS
'A SAILOR OF THE 1939 - 1945 WAR'
MERCHANT NAVY
There is a group of four graves bearing the above inscription of various dates:
21st August 1940
15th September 1940
12th October 1940
18th October 1940
Considering the span of these dates over which the bodies were recovered I wonder if these were shipmates of Able Seaman Davies (see above) of S.S. Bibury, or crewmembers of S.S. Thornlea. Both vessels were travelling in the same convoy OB205 which dispersed on 30th August 1940. The two vessels remained together and were torpedoed by U46 on 2nd September 1940 off the West coast of Ireland, 55.41N 14.30W. The S.S. Thornlea however only lost three crewmen, the rest being rescued by the Canadian Destroyer H.M.C.S. Skeena, and the Norwegian S.S. Hild.
There are more unidentified Merchant Seamen who were recovered over the same period of time in 1940 buried in the graveyard at Iona, which may be viewed here:
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=278
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