Service Details
Name:
 SMITH
Given Name:
 ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Initials:
 A A
Rank:
 Second Officer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Empire Lancer (Greenock)
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-16
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 On 16 Aug 1944 the unescorted Empire Lancer (Master Maxime Jollivet) was torpedoed and sunk by U-862 in the Mozambique Channel. The master, 36 crew members and five gunners were lost. 34 crew members and three gunners landed 60 miles south of Lumbo, Portuguese East Africa ten days later.
Additional
Information:
Son of Captain and Mrs. T. A. Smith, of Liverpool. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-45
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 43.

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