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| 13/10/2020 |
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| 13/10/2020 |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 25th August 1945: Roll of Honour |
| 13/10/2020 |
SCOTT – August 1940, Samuel John Jackson, Chief Radio Officer, Merchant Navy, lost at sea through enemy action. Deeply regretted by his sorrowing father and mother, William John and M V Scott; also brother and sister. 58 James Street, Cookstown. |
| 11/07/2020 |
SCOTT – August 1940, lost at sea through enemy action, Samuel John Jackson, Chief Radio Officer, eldest son of William John and M V Scott, James Street, Cookstown. Deeply regretted. |
| 11/07/2020 |
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| 11/07/2020 |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 12th August 1944: Roll of Honour |
| 22/09/2019 |
First Radio Officer Samuel John Jackson Scott was lost at sea during this action on 8th August 1940. He was 40 years old. |
| 22/09/2019 |
Samuel Scott was the eldest son of William John and Martha Scott. William Scott and Martha Young were married on 28th December 1898 in the district of Cookstown. |
| 22/09/2019 |
Samuel John Jackson Scott was born on 9th January 1900 in Cookstown. He was the eldest of three children. |
| 22/09/2019 |
The 1901 census lists Samuel John J Scott as age 1, living with the family at house 15 in Union Street, Cookstown. His father was a plumber and engineer. |
| 22/09/2019 |
Family: William John Scott, Martha Scott, Samuel John Jackson Scott (born 9th January 1900), William John Scott (born 1st October 1902), Marian Noel Scott (born 19th December 1906). |
| 22/09/2019 |
The 1911 census lists Samuel John J as age 11, living with the family at house 46 in Union Street, Cookstown. His father was a plumber and gas fitter. |
| 22/09/2019 |
Seaman Samuel J J Scott served with the Merchant Navy during the war on board M.V. Upwey Grange. The Upwey Grange was a motor merchant ship launched in 1925. |
| 22/09/2019 |
From a complement of 86 (75 crew & 11 passengers) on board, 33 crew including the captain and three passengers were lost. |
| 22/09/2019 |
First Radio Officer Samuel J J Scott has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 113 of the Tower Hill Memorial in London. |
| 22/09/2019 |
Seaman Samuel Scott is commemorated locally on Cookstown Cenotaph and on First Cookstown Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour. |
| 22/09/2019 |
The CWGC record First Radio Officer Samuel John Jackson Scott as the son of William John and Martha Scott. |
| 22/09/2019 |
Late in July 1940 the Upwey Grange (Master William Ernest Williams) sailed from Buenos Aires for London with a cargo of 5,380 tons of frozen meat and 51 cases of tinned meat. The ship travelled unescorted and unmolested until August 8th when it was detected by the U37 some two hundred miles west Achill Head, County Mayo, Ireland. At about 9.50 a.m. the ship was struck by two torpedoes in quick succession and sunk as a result. |
| 14/09/2019 |
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| 30/12/2015 |
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| 30/12/2015 |
Photo of M.V. Upwey Grange |
