Service Details
Name:
 BLOCK
Given Name:
 JOEL
Initials:
 J
Rank:
 Cook
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 M.V. Rio Bravo (London)
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-02
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Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Torpedoed by German E-boat while at anchor two miles north of Ostend, Belgium, pier, in position 51.17N x 02.58E. Fourteen lives lost; survivors rescued by HMS KERNOT
Additional
Information:
Son of Hershal and Leah Block, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Gertrude Block, of New Brighton, Wallasey, Cheshire.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 London
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Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 87.

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