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Carpenter. James McClure
Merchant Navy SS Empire Bowman
(d.30th Mar 1943)
James McClure died aged 28, he was born in 1914 in Jarrow, the only son of William and Mersaney McClure (nee Collier) of Jarrow who were both killed in an Air Raid at 16 Sheldon Street, Jarrow in 1941. James was the husband of Bertha L. McClure (nee Dunn) of Rainham, Essex. He is remembered on the
Tower Hill Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.