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Melville Bloomer

In memory of:

Master Melville Bloomer

July 1, 1940
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Military Service

Age:

47

Force:

Merchant Navy

Unit:

Canadian Merchant Navy

Division:

SS Lord Kelvin (London, England) (139123)

Additional Information

Born:

May 1, 1893
London, England

His full name is Melville Henry Bloomer.

Son of Reverend Henry Bloomer and Edith Sarah Jecks, of London, England. Husband of Hylda Marion Morley, of Australia. Father of Peter Henry Edward, Julian Cyril Stephen and Celia Edith Marion Bloomer. In the First World War Hylda served in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps of the Royal Air Force.

He was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. He died on July 1, 1940, of a coronary thrombosis in Halifax.

Commemorated on Page 97 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

HALIFAX (ST. JOHN'S) CEMETERY
Nova Scotia, Canada

Grave Reference:

Section M. Row 29. Lot 567

Digital Collection

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  • Document– From register of deceased seaman. Died of angina pectoris, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1937, the first U.S. patent for a submarine cable plow was issued. It was designed to feed a cable at the same time that it would dig a trench in the ocean bed. The device could be used at depths up to a half mile. The first transatlantic cable of high-speed permalloy was buried on 14 Jun 1938. The inventors were Chester S. Lawton of Ridgewood, N.J. and Capt. Melville H. Bloomer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Buried: Halifax (St. John's) Cemetery, Sec. M, Row 29, Lot 567

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    Document – From register of deceased seaman. Died of angina pectoris, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1937, the first U.S. patent for a submarine cable plow was issued. It was designed to feed a cable at the same time that it would dig a trench in the ocean bed. The device could be used at depths up to a half mile. The first transatlantic cable of high-speed permalloy was buried on 14 Jun 1938. The inventors were Chester S. Lawton of Ridgewood, N.J. and Capt. Melville H. Bloomer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Buried: Halifax (St. John's) Cemetery, Sec. M, Row 29, Lot 567

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