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Ch.Cook. Roger Laurence Hackett
Merchant Navy SS Kirnwood

(d.11th Aug 1940)
Roger Hackett who died aged 21 was born in Jarrow in 1919, the son of Roger and Isabella Hackett (nee Veitch) of Jarrow. He was killed when the S.S. Kirnwood was hit by a bomb from an aircraft on 11th August 1940
Roger is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.

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