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Commander PHILIP SOMERVILLE

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Kingston.

Date of Death

Died 04 April 1942

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

IMTARFA MILITARY CEMETERY

Joint grave 1. 1C. 3.

Malta

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order and Bar, Distinguished Service Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Officer of Order of the Phoenix of Greece. Son of Vice-Admiral Hugh Gaultier Coghill Somerville, C.B., D.S.O., and of Mary Somerville (nee Hancock), of Castle Townshend, Co. Cork, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription A FINE SEAMAN LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HE FOUGHT HIS SHIP WITH VALOUR
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