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Able Seaman JOHN MACKAY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Mercantile Marine

S.S. "Apapa" (London)

Date of Death

Died 28 November 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLWYN BAY (BRONYNANT) CEMETERY

B. 232.

United Kingdom

Mackey J (Location B232) Unknown Seaman (Location B217) Colwyn Bay (Bronynant) Cemetery (08555) Order No: 230 3'6" Portland rough block Reads (very difficult) 'In memory of John Mackey, Leeds, Able Seaman also a man whose name is unknown they both perished through the sinking of the British Passenger Steamship 'Apapa' by a German Submarine on 28th Nov 1917 their bodies were washed ashore at Rhos on Sea. They died for their country'

Photographer: Graham Jones

Country of Service United Kingdom
Additional Info Born at Leeds.

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