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Ch.Off. William Stanmore Glover
Mercantile Marine SS Mesaba
from:Cricklewood, London
(d.1st September 1918)
Chief Officer William Glover was the son of William and Mary Ann Glover, of London; husband of Esther Mary Louise Glover, of 21, St. Paul's Avenue, Cricklewood, London.
He was 39 when he died and is buried South-East of the Kilscoran Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kilscoran, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
His body was washed ashore at Rosslare after his vessel was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UB118 in St. George's Channel, 21 miles north of Tuskar Rock while making a convoy voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia in ballast. Twenty souls were lost.