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3rd September 1939On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Baird Hannah. Stewardess (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Bowen C. O.. (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Carlin James. Asst.Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Donnelly Ian. Asst.Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Donnelly John. Asst.Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Elder James. Donkeyman (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Fordyce Charles. Watchman (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Gallagher Hugh. Greaser (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Harrower Alison. Stewardess (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Hogg John. Asst.Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Hogg Margaret. (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Johnston Margaret. Stewardess (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Kent John. Asst.Steward
- Lawler Jessie. Stewardess (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Marshall James. Bellboy (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- McDermott Michael J.. Asst.Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- McJarrow John. Printer (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- McKeowen John. Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Morrison David. Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Morrison David. SD (d.3rd Sept 1939)
- Provan David. Barber (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Stewart-Cox David Arthur Edward. Cdt. (d.3rd Sep 1939)
- Thomson Samuel. Asst.Steward (d.3rd Sep 1939)
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Stories from 3rd September 1939
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Watchman Charles Fordyce. Merchant Navy, SS. Athenia. (d.3rd Sep 1939) Charles was 65 years old, he was serving aboard the Athenia when she was sunk. He was the husband of Mary Penelope Fordyce and is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, in Trinity Square Garden, London.
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Margaret Hogg. Civilian , passenger SS. Athenia. (d.3rd Sep 1939) Origionally from Edinburgh Scotland, Margaret Hogg, aged 52 was a passenger on the SS Athenia when she was sunk.
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SD David Morrison. Merchant Navy, . (d.3rd Sept 1939) David Morrison (son of Peter Young Morrison and Rosina Scullion) was a Glaswegian steward on the SS Athenia, the first ship to be sunk after the declaration of the Second World War. This was pegged by the Scottish papers as Scotland's Lucitania.
Some months after the ship was sunk, a surviving crew member approached his mother, Rosina and told her that David had made it off the ship and was in a life boat with a number of other stewards. He relayed a rather gruesome story that he had seen the life boat struck by the prop of a Norweigian boat called the Knut Nelson who had answered the distress call and was the first rescue boat on the scene. He said they had been trying to help but struck the life boat by accident, killing all the occupants. This appears to have been covered up at the time, but this person told Rosina (my great great grandmother) on their return to Glasgow that most of the people who had been killed in the disaster had been on the life boat the Norwegian ship had struck and not killed by the German uboat who had torpedoed the Athenia (though some undoubtedly were, mostly below decks near the engine room). The number of stewards on the list of the dead, seems to be circumstantial evidence of this, as they would have been amongst the last off the Athenia, after the passengers, and it is quite possible they woud have shared a life boat. Unfortunately, the story has been relayed down 4 generations now, and the name of the crew member, who was kind enough to visit our family has been forgotten. Never the less, it was likely of some comfort to Rosina to know exactly had happened, since the official story seems to have been somewhat corrupted by the need for a propaganda win. After the sinking, Hitler declared that civillian shipping was not to be targeted (aye right, as David would no doubt have said!) in an attempt to pacify the outrage expressed most strongly by America, who had many citizens on board trying to escape the war in europe.
Deborah
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Cdt. David Arthur Edward Stewart-Cox. Royal Navy, HMS Nelson. (d.3rd Sep 1939) David Stewart-Cox's name is listed on the Loddon War Memorial.
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