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Military Information

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  • Rank: Seaman
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  • Regiment/Service: S.S. Hector
  • Unit/Ship: Mercantile Marine
  • Place of Death: Lost at Sea
  • Age at Death: 19
  • Date of Death: 14.11.1914
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  • Date of Birth: 21.04.1895
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    Thomas Meek of Glasgow and Canada

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More about Charles Meek

Charles Meek was the son of Mr Thomas Meek of Glasgow and Canada and is believed to have been a Mars boy. On November 14th, 1914, the British cargo vessel HECTOR, built in 1898 by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Hutchinson J. & P., left Swansea for San Sebastian with a cargo of coal, and went missing. On 15 November 1914 a strong gale was blowing in this area with a rather low pressure zone centred on Ireland which may have caused the cargo to shift and capsize the ship. All thirteen crew were lost.

Information from Dundee Seamen’s Roll of Honour and Iain Stewart / Iain Birnie

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