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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
Additional information
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
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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