Service Details
Name:
 CLINTON
Given Name:
 GILBERT JAMES
Initials:
 G J
Rank:
 Third Engineer Officer
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Tucurinca (Glasgow)
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Date of Death:
 1943-03-11
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Age:
 52
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Convoy HX 228, torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Farewell, Greenland by U-211 with the loss of one of the 81 people aboard
Decorations:
 M B E
Citations:
 LG Sup 4 January 1943 pg. 67
Additional
Information:
Son of Harry James and Eva Clinton; husband of Annie Lizzie Clinton, of Swindon, Wiltshire. 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 112.

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