George Edgar King
He was a shipping transport clerk in 1939.
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He was the son of Edward Harvey King and Eliza Jane King. He was the husband of Eva Allenby King. In 1939, they lived at 32, Ewell Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. Eva later moved to Wollaton, Nottingham.
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Panel 64, Column 1.
Shaw Savill & Albion Co; 1913; Harland & Wolff; 18.713 tons; 655x69.4x43.8; 7.750 ihp; 15 knots; triple-expansion engines & L.P. turbine. The Ceramic, Capt. H.C. Elford, with 378 passengers and a crew of 278 was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-515, Capt. Lt. W. Henke, West of Azores on the night of December 6th, 1942. Rescue ships at St. Michael´s were unable to put to sea because of the heavy weather. Only one man survived, Sapper A. E. Munday of the Royal Engineers, who was picked up by a German submarine the following day after the rescue boat he was in, capsized due to the heavy seas. Mr. Sapper was interned at the German POW camp at Marlag-Milag-Nord and the British government only found out about the sinking when the POW wrote home to his family. Some months later, the U-515 was sunk by US destroyers, which captured the commander and 43 of his crew. Capt. Lt. Henke was killed when endeavouring to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1197
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