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Chief Officer Angus Romkey

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Military service

Age: 46
Rank: Chief Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SV A.W. Chisholm (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) (141698)
Birth: April 4, 1893 West Dublin, Nova Scotia
Death: December 7, 1939 Turks and Caicos Islands, Tanzania

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Son of Rufus Romkey and Margaret Letitia Reinhardt of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Husband of Violet Marguerite Rieser of Petite Rivière, Lunenburg. Father of J. Murray Barclay, Charmaine Eleonora Peterson and Imogene Georgina Romkey.


He died of an unspecified cause at sea off the Turks and Caicos Islands, West Indies, where his body was submerged. His name is engraved on the family headstone in the Brookside Cemetery in West Dublin, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 220 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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