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Chief Engineer John Dow

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Military service

Age: 54
Rank: Chief Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Chomedy (Vancouver, British Columbia) (150593)
Birth: January 1, 1888 Greenock, Scotland
Death: March 17, 1942 Trinidad

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Son of Joh Dow and Robina McColl, of Islay, Argyleshire, Scotland. Husband of Helen Armstrong Stevenson, of Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

He died in Trinidad of a cerebral hemorrhage, the result of his alcoholism. He was buried there. His name is also engraved on the Scottish National War Memorial 1914-1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Page 259 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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