Vessel Loss

Memorial: M2834

Memorial at Embankment Road Cemetery, Kingsbridge, Devon, commemorating John Messer Grant d. 1917 in loss of HMS ‘Aragon’

Location

Embankment Road Cemetery, Kingsbridge, Devon, England

Transcript

'In / Ever Loving Memory / OF MY DEAR FATHER / WILLIAM GRANT / WHO DIED JUNE 21ST 1902 / AGED 56 YEARS / AT REST / ALSO OF MY ONLY BROTHER / JOHN MESSER GRANT / WHO LOST HIS LIFE AT SEA / ON H.M.S. ARAGON, DEC. 30TH 1917 / AGED 20 YEARS. / FOR HIS COUNTRY'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: HMS Aragon

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Grant, John Messer
Age: 20
Date of Death: 30/12/1917
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: British Army

Extra

Notes: HMS 'Aragon', a troopship torpedoed off Alexandria on 30 December 1917. Same date of death as that given by CWGC for John William James Messer. He was serving with the Dorsetshire Regiment.
Recorder: Lyn Collins

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Maritime Memorials