Photo: Brian Chandler
In loving memory of
Nellie Johnson
Loved wife of Arthur Law Marshall
4 November 1884 – 14 February 1969
also Maurice Law, their beloved only son
lost at sea by enemy action
16 December 1942, aged 27 years
Maurice was born at Sunderland on 2nd April 1915. He joined the Merchant Navy as an Assistant Electrician (2nd Class) aboard the Pacific President on 1st May 1936. By 12th December 1938 he had risen to Electrician (1st Class).
He was recorded as a passenger on board the Belgian registered steam merchant ‘Emile Francqui’, whose home port was Antwerp. The ship was part of convoy, ON-153 attacked in heavy seas and was torpedoed by U-664 on 16th December 1942 at 20.13 hours, resulting in 4 ships sunk and I damaged. At the time he was recorded as being employed by the Ministry of Munitions and Supply and was travelling with a number of colleagues. The ship had a crew of 70 (of whom 55 were Belgians); 11 passengers (including a British mother and her two young daughters who perished) and six gunners. Of the 87, 46 died and 41 survived.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.
Maurice Law Marshall is remembered in Sunderland on S140.142
There is no CWGC entry for Maurice Law Marshall
