Service Details
Name:
 GOODSON
Given Name:
 JOHN DAVID
Initials:
 J D
Rank:
 First Radio Officer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Nancy Moller (London)
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Date of Death:
 1944-03-18
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Torpedoed and sunk by Japanese I-165. En route from Durban, South Africa to Colombo, Ceylon. I-165's commander LtCdr Shimizu ordered his crewmen to open fire on the MOLLER's survivors. Thirty-two are killed by machine-gun and pistol fire.
Additional
Information:
Son of John Augustus and Irene Goodson; husband of Vera Goodson, of Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa.
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 71.

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