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Re: Sinking of ss City of Venice
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: January 27, 2017 06:59PM

Hi Tom

We can eliminate CITY OF VENICE, this ship carried 3 officers and 154 ratings of the British Army, all other troops aboard were Canadian and Edward Luckham wasn't one of the three British officers.

However, I found circumstantial evidence that he probably was a passenger aboard HOIHOW which had been sunk by U-181 off Madagascar on 2 July 1943. There were only four survivors and they reported that a Sergeant Major of the British Army had been on their raft, but he went mad and jumped overboard on 4 July. I'm quite certain that this was Major Luckham.

Best regards
Rainer

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Re: Sinking of ss City of Venice Rainer 01/27/2017 06:59PM
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