May Muriel CLIFFORD
- Extended Description
- May Muriel CLIFFORD. Nurse VAD.
Born 1892 to George and Mary Jane Clifford, of Idbury, Kingham, Oxfordshire. She resided at Wayside, Sipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire.
1901 with her parents and siblings at Idbury, Oxfordshire. 1911 Employed as a Companion aged 19 at the home of Percy and Florence Smith, farmer at Witt’s Farm. Over Morton, Chipping Morton, Oxfordshire.
16 July 1942 whilst on voyage from Liverpool to Table Bay with 12 passengers, 142 crew and six gunners, the ship was sunk by enemy surface raiders in the South Atlantic between Freetown and Cape Town. Captain H.H. Rose and 92 passengers and crew were killed including May who was aged 50.
Two lifeboats containing 61 people were picked up by the raider and taken to Japan as prisoners.
She is at rest on or near S.S. Gloucester Castle.
