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15 October 2014
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Lost at Sea

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Walter and Raymond Coley-Hackett
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Egypt
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Army
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A4085813
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18 May 2005

This story was told to us by a Mr Coley Hackett who fully understands it will be used on the web site and the terms and conditions.

Earlier this year in March we travelled to Egypt to try to find out more about how my father died. We knew he was in the Worcester’s regiment and went to Al Almein . There we found a plaque with his name on it but it said his and other names were of men who’d been lost at sea. When we tracked down more information we discovered he’d been taken a prisoner of war from Egypt and was on his way somewhere on a boat which was sunk — and it’s now known it was sunk by the British as it didn’t have any markings. It was an Italian ship we think, the SS Sicilian. My father was 31 at the time. But when we were looking at the graves and plaques in Egypt we realised how young all the men were — 18, 19 and 21. we’re trying to trace our family history and my wife took me to Egypt as my 65th birthday present —something we’d always wanted to do. We have a set of medals like those of my fathers framed with his army number at home.

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