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Military Information

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  • Rank: Second Engineer
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  • Regiment/Service: S.S. Sowell
  • Unit/Ship: Merchantile Marine
  • Place of Death: Lost at Sea
  • Age at Death: 24
  • Date of Death: 19/04/17
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  • Cemetery: Tower Hill Memorial, London
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Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 1892
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 109 Talbot Road, South Shields.
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  • Mother:

    Margaret Smith Anderson, 109 Talbot St, South Shields

  • Father:

    James Anderson, 109 Talbot St, South Shields

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More about Alexander Ireland Anderson

Andrew I Anderson was the son of Mr James Anderson and Mrs Margaret Smith Anderson of 109 Talbot Road, South Shields but was born in Dundee. The SS Sowwell was sunk by torpedo fired by the German submarine U-35 approximately 170 miles South west of Gibraltar. She was en route from Sagunto to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore and twenty crew died in the sinking. Andrew Anderson is named on the Tower Hill Memorial in London.

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