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John Greig · In memoriam
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John Greig
? – 1917
Service No. 202466 - Royal Scots Fusiliers. 1st/5th Bn. One of the 84 soldiers lost at sea after the german submarine U-47 torpedoed the troopship H.M.T. Ivernia, 58 miles south-east of Cape Matapan in Greece, in the Kythira Strait. The ship went down fairly quickly with a loss of 36 crew members and 84 troops, the troop ship was on its way to Alexandria in Egypt.