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1914-18

  J. Aindow

  R. Balshaw

  J.Dean

  K. Kemp

  J. S. Rowland

1939-45

  J. Blackley

  E. W. Browne

  R. J. Corkhill

  R. Formby

  T. Jones

  W. E. Lishman

  C. V. O. McNabb

  S. K. Morrison

  J. E. Mills

  G. Rimmer

  R. N. Steinmann

  C. S. Thomson

  E. Wadsworth

  H. Willacy

Not on Memorial

J B Horsfall (1914-18)

S. S. Shaw (1921)

F. Taylor (1914-18)

C. L. Thomas (1920)

A. D. Fisk (1939-45)

A. N. W. Sykes (1939-45)

P.G.Sykes (1939-45)

James Edward Mills

James was Master on the S. S. Viking Star.

He was killed at the age of 43 on 25 August 1942 leaving a widow Anne in Formby.  He was one of eight killed when his ship was torpedoed by Kapitän Ernst Kals in U-130, but some of the crew survived and a full account of the incident can be found at http://www.bluestarline.org/viking.html 

Although U-130 was successfully depth-charged in March 1943 and went down with all hands, Kals survived the war and died in 1979 aged 74.

See http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2801055.