IN LOVING MEMORY OF:

Byron John (Squire) Graham 19-Sep-17


First Name: Byron John (Squire)
Last Name:Graham
Rank: Second Mate
Regiment: Mercantile Marines
Military Number:
Place of Birth:Cleggan Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Place of Death:SS Saint Ronald
Date of Death:19-Sep-17
Age:28
Additional Information:

Killed in Action:19 September 1917. Age 28.

Supplementary Notes: Drowned as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine.

Son of the late John Graham and of Mary Eleanor Graham (nee Squire), of 35, Carfrae Terrace, Lipson, Plymouth. 

Born: Cleggan, Connemara.

Remembered: Tower Hill Memorial-London-United Kingdom.

SS Saint Ronald, built by Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow in 1910 and owned at the time of her loss by British & Foreign SS. Co. Ltd. (Rankin, Gilmour & Co. Ltd.), Liverpool, was a British steamer of 4.387 tons.

On September 19th, 1917, Saint Ronald, on a voyage from Antofagasta and New York to Liverpool with a cargo of nitrate, was sunk by the German submarine U-82 (Hans Adam), 95 miles NNW from Tory Island. 24 persons were lost.

 

SAINT RONALD was a 4,387grt, defensively-armed British Merchant steamship. On the 19th September 1917 when 95 miles Nnw from Tory Island, Nw Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 24 lives lost.

GRAHAM, BYRON JOHN SQUIRE (28), Second Mate, SS Saint Ronald, Mercantile Marine, †19/09/1917, Son of the late John Graham and of Mary Eleanor Graham (nee Squire), of 35, Carfrae Terrace, Lipson, Plymouth. Born at Cleggan, Co. Galway, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial

 

Mercantile Marines

Mercantile Marines

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SS Saint Ronald

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SS Saint Ronald

Tower Hill Memorial-London-United Kingdom. ()

Tower Hill Memorial-London-United Kingdom.()