Post by Administrator on Dec 11, 2016 21:14:48 GMT
Lascar seamen commemorated with new headstones
30 November 2016
A special service has been held at Margate Cemetery, #Kent to honour two Lascar Seamen who died upon “S.S. Matra”, which sank in November 1939 after hitting a German underwater mine. WW2
Seaman Kala Mian, aged 24 and Cassab, Munir aged 41, both drowned along with 14 others when the ship sank during the dark hours of the cold November night. They had just entered the Thames Estuary to go towards East India Docks before going home to Liverpool, when the ship broke in two after the explosion.
It was originally thought that the two men were buried at sea and they were then commemorated on the Bombay/Chittagong 1939-1945 war memorial in India.
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30 November 2016
A special service has been held at Margate Cemetery, #Kent to honour two Lascar Seamen who died upon “S.S. Matra”, which sank in November 1939 after hitting a German underwater mine. WW2
Seaman Kala Mian, aged 24 and Cassab, Munir aged 41, both drowned along with 14 others when the ship sank during the dark hours of the cold November night. They had just entered the Thames Estuary to go towards East India Docks before going home to Liverpool, when the ship broke in two after the explosion.
It was originally thought that the two men were buried at sea and they were then commemorated on the Bombay/Chittagong 1939-1945 war memorial in India.
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