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Military service
Age:
49
Rank:
Master
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Grayburn (London, England) (166570)
Birth:
April 11, 1892
Watford Borough
Death:
June 29, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Edward Sygrove and Clara Ann Powell from Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Husband of Ada Annie Colls from South Shields, Durham, England. Father of John William and Frederick Colls Sygrove.
A member of convoy HX-133, she was torpedoed at 0030 hours on 29 June 1941 by U-651 and sank off Iceland, position 59°30'N/18°07'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 236 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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