FRANK STAMP

STAMP, FRANK

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Fireman
Last Unit: SS Marie Elsie
Born: Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 1898
Home Town: Toodyay, Toodyay, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Sinking of SS Marie Elsie, Barents Sea, 10 June 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Lost at Sea
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll, Campbell Australian Merchant Seamen Honour Roll, Fremantle 849 Memorial, Tower Hill Memorial
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World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Merchant Navy, Fireman, SS Marie Elsie

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Australian Merchant Navy casualty of the Great War who was a Fireman and Trimmer on the S.S. "Marie Elsie" (London), a cargo ship which was torpedoed and sunk on 10th June 1917 in the Barents Sea 125 nautical miles north west of Cape Teriberski, Russia by SM U-28 with the loss of three of her crew.

He was 19 and the son of Thomas William and Lilly Stamp, of North Toodyay, Western Australia.

Commemorate on Tower Hill Memorial, London, England, United Kingdom