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2ndEng.Off. Joseph Aloysius Tynan
Merchant Navy SS Wilhelmina
(d.2nd Dec 1940)
Joseph Tynan, son of Joseph and Mary Tynan, was born in 1909 in Jarrow, County Durham. He died aged 31 when the S.S. Wilhelmina was hit by the U-94 whilst en-route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool. He is commemorated on Panel 119 at Tower Hill Memorial, and also on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance to Jarrow Town Hall.