Service Details
Name:
FLINT
Given Name:
JOHN MERLIN
Initials:
J M
Service No:
562749
Rank:
Able Seaman
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Regiment:
South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
H.M.S. President III
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Unit 2:
S. S. Empire Lake
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Date of Death:
1943-07-15
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Date of Birth:
1924-09-28
Age:
18
Cause of Death:
Torpedoed and sunk by U-181 about 240 miles east of Madagascar. The master, 24 crew members and six gunners were lost. Five crew members and two gunners landed at Farafangana, Madagascar.
Additional
Information:
Son of Merlin T. Flint, and of Victoria I. Flint, of Parkhurst, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. ***Ship may have been Empire Lake. Commemoration stone in Cape Town (Mowbray) Garden of Remembrance
Commemoration
Country:
United Kingdom
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Locality:
Devon
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Cemetery:
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
Panel 83, Column 3.

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