Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Fireman James Bede Gilchrist

Merchant Navy S S Effna

from:Jarrow upon Tyne

(d.28th Feb 1941)

James Gilchrist was on the S.S. Effna when it was sunk off the south coast of Iceland.It was attacked and sunk by U 108 on the 28th of February 1941 with the loss of The Master and 33 crew members of which James Gilchrist was one. The crew are commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial in London.



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