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information-about-overseas-service: Left from Little Creek Armed Guard School, Norfolk, Va., about 20th of March, 1941, and was assigned to armed guard crew of S.S. Heredis, leaving from New York about 1st of April, 1942. The ship war torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico on May 19th, 1942, without warning, with the loss of five of the six man gun crew. The ship was headed from the Canal Zone to New Orleans, when she was attacked a 2:00 A.M.

citations-decorations-service-medals-etc: Purple Heart

circumstances-of-death: Killed in Action

area-of-place-of-death: Gulf of Mexico.

date-of-death: 1942-05-19

any-other-details-known:

photograph: No

next-of-kin

first-name: Janie

middle-name: Ethel

last-name: Drummond

suffix:

address: Keller, Va.

relationship: Mother

person-supplying-information

first-name: Carlton

middle-name: A.

last-name: Drummond

suffix:

address: Keller, Va.

person-submitting-information

first-name: Miss

middle-name:

last-name: Nock

suffix:

address: