> Follow up re:Request for WW1 Casualty please (Nivard Ovington) Just out of curiosity I followed the Wikipedia link to shipwrecks.... How sad to see the toll the convoys took... What caught my eye was that the Empire Heron mentioned below with one survivor was picked up by HMS Gladiolus. Two days later she herself was sunk with the loss of all hands and the survivor from Empire Heron ...... Sent from my iPad > On 17 Nov 2018, at 10:02, suffolk-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Send SUFFOLK mailing list submissions to suffolk@rootsweb.com > > To subscribe via email send a message with subject subscribe and body > subscribe to suffolk-request@rootsweb.com > > To unsubscribe via email send a message with subject unsubscribe and > body unsubscribe to suffolk-request@rootsweb.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > suffolk-owner@rootsweb.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SUFFOLK digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Request for WW1 Casualty please (Nivard Ovington) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:00:52 +0000 > From: Nivard Ovington <ovington.one@gmail.com> > Subject: [SFK-UK] Re: Request for WW1 Casualty please > To: suffolk@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8831f0c4-1c20-80db-34ba-1e2c51a37860@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed > > Hi Dawn > > I presume you mean the CWGC was the site > > <https://www.cwgc.org/search-results?term=Montague%20Rist%20&name=Montague%20Rist%20&fullname=Montague%20Rist%20> > > Gunner RIST, MONTAGUE CHARLES > > Service Number 1520399 > > Died 15/10/1941 > > 7/4 Maritime Regt. > Royal Artillery > > Son of Isaac and Rosa Mary Rist, of Mistley, Essex. > > Also listed in the Army Roll of Honour > > Name: Montague Rist > Given Initials: M > Rank: Gunner > Death Date: 15 Oct 1941 > Number: 1520399 > Birth Place: Suffolk > Residence: Essex > Branch at Enlistment: Royal Artillery > Theatre of War: At sea > Regiment at Death: Royal Artillery > Branch at Death: Royal Artillery > > The administration of his estate in 1942 > > RIST Montague Charles of Church Farm Mistley Essex died 15 Oct 1941 on > war service Administration Ipswich 1 July to Isaac RIST Farmer > Effects £177 10s > > I can find his attestation in 1938, plus casualty list (missing) and > (KIA) but none so far mention the ship he was on > > Assuming he died on the day the ship was sunk there were two UK ships > listed as sunk on that day > > The Empire Heron > > And the Silvercedar > > Both part of the same convoy by the looks of it and both torpedoed > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_October_1941 > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > >> > ***************************************