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Second Engineer Douglas Kerr Jolly

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Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Second Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Taber Park (Montreal, Québec) (175574)
Birth: January 1, 1915 Edinburgh, Scotland
Death: March 13, 1945 North Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 105.
Additional information
Son of Hubert Rollo Jolly and Mary Chilsholm of Edinburgh, Scotland. Husband of Helen Carse Hamilton of Edinburgh. Father of Patricia Kay and Sandra Helen Jolly.

His name is also inscribed on the Scottish National War Memorial 1914-1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A Type XXVIIB submarine, Seehund Class, attacked the Taber Park on its voyage from the Tyne to London, England, and sank it off Aldeburgh in the North Sea, off Southwold, position 52°22'N/01°53'E, while it was part of the FS-1753 convoy from Methil to the Thames, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 261 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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