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Friday, February 18, 2011

Living relative

Looking at the list of deceased from the SS. Saganaga I noticed that one of the seamen came from my home town . The name of Misselbrook stirred memories of my childhood as a family by that name ran the local secondhand car business a mile or so from my home. An unusual name, I telephoned around , all the existing Misselbrooks were related and one turned out to be the first cousin of that very seamen. We spoke at the length but he new very little about  his ancestor. However he did tell me that he thought his cousins name was on a memorial in Portsmouth England.I contacted the  UK National Inventory of War Memorials and they have confirmed that Frederick Henry Misselbrook is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Southsea Common, Porstmouth which is a memorial to those who have lost their lives at sea and have no known grave.