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GILROY, Hugh
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | W1437, W/1437 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Engine Room Artificer IV, W1437, HMAS Goorangai | |
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16 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Engine Room Artificer IV, W/1437, HMAS Goorangai |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Hugh and Helen Gilroy; husband of Jessie Jane Bowie Gilroy, of Mortdale, New South Wales, Australia.