Service Details
Name:
 FOUCHE
Given Name:
 LOUIS
Initials:
 L
Rank:
 Able Seaman
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Roumanie (Belgium)
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Date of Death:
 1942-09-22
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 At 13.58 hours on 24 September 1942 the unescorted Roumanie (Master Emile Morb?e), a straggler from convoy SC-100, was torpedoed and sunk by U-617 about 380 miles southwest of Iceland. The chief engineer Pierre Suykerbuyk was found on a raft and taken prisoner by the U-boat and landed at St. Nazaire on 7 October. The master, 36 crew members and five gunners were lost.
Additional
Information:
Son of Ellen Fouche. Born Cape Town. 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 88.

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