Service Details
Name:
 COBBLEDICK
Given Name:
 JOHN RAYMOND
Initials:
 J R
Rank:
 Fourth Engineer Officer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Derrynane (London)
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Date of Death:
 1941-02-12
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 On February 12, 1941, SS Derrynane was in convoy SLS.64, with a cargo of iron ore from Lourenco Marques, when the convoy was attacked by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. The position was 37.12N, 21.20W (about 400 miles S.E. of the Azores). Derrynane was the second vessel to be hit by shellfire and blew up killing all those on board; the master (Earnest Joice), thirty four crew members and one DEMS gunner.
Additional
Information:
ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-45
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 London
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Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 35.

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