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2Eng.Off. Noel Patrick Jennings KCBC
Merchant Navy MV Empire Light
(d.7th Mar 1943)
Noël Patrick Jennings was lost at sea aboard the MV Empire Light en route from Manchester to New York, when the ship was attacked by U-638 South West of Cape Farewell. Aged 41 he was born in Jarrow in 1901. He was the son of Elizabeth Marion Jennings (nee Cocker) and the late Dr. William Munro Jennings (Surgeon) of Jarrow. He was the husband of Margaret Jennings (nee Amor) of Benton, Northumberland.
His older brothers Herbert Lowther and Eric Kingsley Jennings were of the fallen in WW1.