Steward, Merchant Navy. Lost with his ship when the Donaldson Liner "Athenia" was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine 3 September 1939. Listed in the crew aboard Athenia according to Liverpool Echo 4 September 1939, page 6, an Assistanty Saloon Steward, resident 13, Moir Street, Alloa. No known grave.

Note: SS Athenia was a steam turbine transatlantic passenger liner built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1923 for the Anchor-Donaldson Line, which later became the Donaldson Atlantic Line. She worked between the United Kingdom and the east coast of Canada until 3 September 1939, when a torpedo from the German submarine U-30 sank her in the Western Approaches.

For the complete story and details see Wikipedia - SS Athenia

Fireman, S.S. Abbotsford (Grangemouth), Merchant Navy. At 23.30 hours on 9 March 1940 the Abbotsford was hit in the foreship by one G7e torpedo from German submarine U-14, north of Zeebrugge, and caught fire. Aged 33. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fowell, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire; husband of Barbara Fowell, of Tullibody, Clackmannanshire. No known grave. Commemorated on TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, London. Panel 1.

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