Service Details
Name:
 LORD
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS WILLIAM
Initials:
 D W
Service No:
 330439
Rank:
 Ordinary Seaman
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Phoebe
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Date of Death:
 1942-10-24
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Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 While HMS Phoebe was proceeding to Pointe Noire in French Equatorial Africa on 23rd October 1942, Phoebe was hit forward and aft by torpedoes from U161
Additional
Information:
Son of Harry Victor and Maggie Lord, of Durban, South Africa. Born Pietermaritzburg. A clerk.
Commemoration
Country:
 Congo
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Cemetery:
 POINTE NOIRE EUROPEAN CEMETERY
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