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Identity
Person No.
41385
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Constance Lillian
Initials
C L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
43
Death Record
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost in S.S. Khedive Ismail (London). Sailing on 6 February 1944 from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon in Convoy KR-8, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by a B1 type Japanese submarine. The Khedive Ismail was hit by two torpedoes. 1297 perished
Military Service
Rank
Sister
Secondary Unit
"C" Squadron
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

Daughter of Lucretia Maria Arnott, of Good Hope Farm, Salisbury

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'CR/600' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41384 to 41385 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41384, Amm, William Raymond Stanton (W R S)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

Citations

***Submitted for War Grave Status to CWGC, awaiting acceptance

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