In Memory Of

BUGLASS, HARRY ALEXANDER

Service Details
Age:
 55
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Chief Officer
Unit:
 S.S. Holmside (Newcastle-on-Tyne)
Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
 1941-07-19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at 10.42 hours on 19 July 1941 the Holmside (Master Norman Caulfield), dispersed from convoy OG-67, was hit by three torpedoes from U-66 and sank within 15 minutes northeast of the Cape Verde Islands. During a first attack the ship had been missed with two stern and two bow torpedoes between 03.16 and 03.23 hours. 18 crew members and three gunners were lost. The master, 13 crew members and two gunners were picked up by the Portuguese steam merchant Sete Cidades and landed at Lisbon on 1 August
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 57.
Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 London
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Thomas and Mary Buglass (nee Alexander); husband of Lily Buglass, of South Shields, Co. Durham. Born Cape Town in 1886. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-45