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The CWGC record Merchant Seaman Lewis Johnson as the husband of Annie Johnson of Cookstown, County Tyrone. |
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Seaman Johnston has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 87 of the Tower Hill Memorial in London. |
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Six members of the crew survived the sinking and were rescued by the corvette HMS Burdock. |
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SS River Lugar was carrying a load of iron ore from Pepel, West Africa and was bound for Liverpool as part of a sixty ship convoy, SL-78. River Lugar was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-69, three hundred miles south west of the Canary Islands. The captain, 34 crew and one passenger were lost. |
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Merchant Seaman Lewis Johnston was killed on active service on 26th June 1941. He was 47 years old. |
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Lewis Johnston was serving with the Merchant Navy on board SS River Lugar as a fireman and trimmer. |
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Lewis Johnson was the husband of Annie Johnson. |
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It is believed Lewis Johnston was born in 1894 in Sierra Leone. |
