Service Details
Name:
 WOOLLER
Given Name:
 HARRY
Initials:
 H
Rank:
 Fireman
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Thistleglen (Sunderland)
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Date of Death:
 1941-09-10
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 At 16.42 hours on 10 September 1941, U-85 fired a spread of two torpedoes at a ship in convoy SC-42 northeast of Cape Farewell and reported one ship sunk and another probably damaged after observing one hit and hearing a second detonation. However, only Thistleglen (Master Gordon Frederick Dodson), the ship of the vice-commodore, was hit by one torpedo and sank later. Three crew members were lost. The master, 39 crew members and six gunners abandoned ship in three lifeboats and two rafts and were picked up after about one hour by the Lorient, a straggler from the same convoy and landed at Belfast.
Additional
Information:
Born South Africa. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-1945
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 107.

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