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Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The Second World War 1939-1945, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: SS Glencoe |
Steam Ship Glencoe was built in 1900 in Glasgow, Scotland, she was owned by the Minister of Finance and Customs for the Government of the Dominion of Newfoundland (1931). Sold for scrap in 1959. This vessel was one of the Alphabet Fleet. |
| Action : Natural Causes |
Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.
Detail :
Rank: Chief Officer
Service Number: none
Unit: SS Glencoe, Merchant Navy (Newfoundland)
Died at Sea: 19 May 1942
Buried: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, St John’s, Newfoundland
Probably Chief Officer Kenneth Harding, of the SS Glencoe, who died of cardiac failure on 19 May 1942 while at sea off Newfoundland.
Kenneth Harding was born in February 1886 in Greenspond, Newfoundland, and is the son of Samuel Harding and Ellen Burgess. He is buried in (Belvedere) Mount Pleasant Cemetery, St Johns NL. He was married to Beatrice Burry.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Royal Standard No. 398 E.C. | Montreal & Halifax |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
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Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley