Hugh GILROY

GILROY, Hugh

Service Numbers: W1437, W/1437
Enlisted: 16 September 1939
Last Rank: Engine Room Artificer IV
Last Unit: HMAS Goorangai
Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, 24 June 1901
Home Town: Mortdale, Hurstville, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Ship Collision, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1940, aged 39 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Engine Room Artificer IV, W1437, HMAS Goorangai
16 Sep 1939: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Engine Room Artificer IV, W/1437, HMAS Goorangai

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Hugh and Helen Gilroy; husband of Jessie Jane Bowie Gilroy, of Mortdale, New South Wales, Australia.