A616 CARMELO CAMILLERI, ANGELO MANGION.

E. EA. A. 616. CAMILLERI CARMELO. Private M/374702, Mechanical Transport Driving School Army Service Corps. Born 1895 Giusippi Camilleri and Marianna Butragiar of Zebbug, husband of Concetta Mifsud, of Strada Mamo, 40, Zebbug, Malta. Died 25 July 1918 aged 23 years.

E. EA. A. 616. MANGION Angelo. Private 2692, 3rd Coast Battery, Royal Malta Artillery. Died 10th December 1917, aged 32 years at sea. Son of Antonio and Antonia Mangion, of Benghasi, Tunis, and the husband of Concetta Mangion, of 48 Strada Giovanni, Hamrun

Extract from Times of Malta -
Freighter Islandia runs aground at Delimara Point -
On December 10 1917, the British freighter Islandia ran aground at Delimara Point. In mid-afternoon it had departed Marsaxlokk to go to the Grand Harbour. The seas were stormy, with a strong swell towards the northwest. Just outside Marsaxlokk the engine stopped, so it was anchored. But the anchors failed to hold the ship’s drift and the stormy seas pushed it aground, stern to shore. The ship’s bottom was holed, and it sank in very shallow water so that it was submerged by only about a metre (from shore it appeared to be unharmed). A number of the crewmen jumped in the sea and swam ashore, where they were helped to gain land by RMA soldiers from Fort Delimara. Only, one of the soldiers, gunner Angelo Mangion, lost his life.

Both at rest in Addolorata Cemetery Div E Row EA Grave A616