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Assistant Steward WILLIAM EDWARD GELMOUR KERKIN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy)

H.M.S. Athene

Date of Death

Died 08 December 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT ELIZABETH (SOUTH END) CEMETERY

H Extension. Grave 36N.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Capt. W.J. Kerkin and Mrs M E Kerkin, of Fowey, Cornwall, England.
  • Personal Inscription "OUR ACTS OUR ANGELS ARE, OR GOOD OR ILL..." GOD REST HIM FOR HIS BRAVERY
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