Service Details
Name:
 HUME
Given Name:
 WILLIAM FRANK
Initials:
 W F
Rank:
 Second Radio Officer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Harpagon (London)
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Date of Death:
 1942-04-19
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at 05.24 hours on 20 Apr, 1942, the unescorted Harpagon (Master Robert William Edward Laycock) was torpedoed and sunk by U-109 about 150 miles north-northwest of Bermuda. The master, 34 crew members and six gunners were lost. Eight crew members were picked up by the Argentinian merchant Rio Diamante and landed at Buenos Aires
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 55.

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