Grace Wesslink HARVEY
- Extended Description
- Grace Wesslink HARVEY. Sister 274658 QAIMNS
Born 1898 to George and Agnes Harvey of West Hartlepool, County Durham.
1901 with her parents and siblings at Lodge, Normanhurst West Hartlepool
1911 with her parents and siblings at Normanhurst Lodge,
Killed at sea on the 12th February 1944 aged 47 whilst on the SS Khedive Ismail. The ship departed on the 6 February 1944 from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon in Convoy KR-8. It was attacked and sunk by two torpedoes fired from a B1 type Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean, 1,297 perished. Commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, Surrey.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry.
Grace Wesslink Harvey of 42 Percy Street, West Hartlepool, spinster, died on date stated. Her effects went to her sister, Janet Steel Harvey.
