Master GRIFFITH OWEN
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Mercantile Marine
H.M.T. "North Wales."
Date of Death
Died 24 October 1916
Age 45 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of the late Capt. Henry and Catherine Owen of Morfa Nevin, Carnarvonshire; husband of Jane Owen, of "Erw Goch," Morfa Nevin. In November, 1914, while in command of another H.M.T. "North Wales" his ship was caught and sunk off Coronel, South America, by German cruiser "Dresden." He was made prisoner and released after battle of Falkland Islands.
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