Service Details
Name:
SWEET
Given Name:
HERBERT JOSEPH
Initials:
H J
Rank:
Troop Cook
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Regiment:
Mercantile Marine
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Unit:
S.S. "Galway Castle" (London)
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Date of Death:
1918-09-12
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Age:
46
Cause of Death:
Drowned at sea (from S.S. "Galway Castle"), as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine 160 miles S.W. and .5 S. of the Fastnet
Additional
Information:
Son of Frederick and Esther Sweet. Husband of Johanna Catherina Cletta Sweet (nee Vorster), of 45, Steel Rd., Durban, South Africa. Born at Birmingham.
Commemoration
Country:
United Kingdom
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Locality:
London
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Cemetery:
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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