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His full name is Jean Louis Clément Lagois.
Son of Gustav Adolph Hermann Lagois and Louisa Amalie Rossmann of Magdebourg, Saxony, Germany. Husband of Marie Nilsen Bendicksen of Systad, Hylestard Sogn, Norway. Father of Louisa Hamalia Marie, Olga Johana, Emmy Carmen and Victoria Lagois.
On 6 April 1917, the Presto was en route from London, England, to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, when at 9:40 am she struck a mine laid by UC-40. She began to sink and remained afloat. The explosion killed 4 crew members. Towed by two vessels, she struck the bottom 4 miles (7.5 km) east of Roker Point lighthouse in Sunderland, England, and sank in 56 feet (17 m) of water, position 54°57'N/01°16'W.
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Page 42 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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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.
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