Name: Lloyd Ingram Bowlby Rank: Donkeyman Service: SS Walter L. M. Russ, Canadian Merchant Navy Date of Birth: April 24, 1913 Place of Birth: Aylesford, Kings County, Nova Scotia Date of Death: July 16, 1945 Age: 32 Cemetery: Preston Cemetery and Tynemouth Crematorium, North Shields, Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England Grave: Section C, General Lloyd was the son of Ingram Elviston Bowlby (1874-1956) and Mary Anne (MacMillan) Bowlby (1876- 1970), and the brother of Helen Greta Bowlby (1900-1998), Edna Majorie Bowlby (1902-1976), Bertha B Bowlby (1902-1902), Audrey Fayetta Bowlby (b. 1903), Maxwell I Bowlby (1908-1908), Constance Bowlby (1909-1983), and Charles Macmillan "Bill" Bowlby (1916-2004). He was the husband of Georgina Olina Jane (Aamodt Iverson) Bowlby (1916-1999) who was born in Northumberland County, England. Lloyd and Georgina had three children - Carl Thomas Bowlby (1942-2024), Lloyd Richard Bowlby (1944-2007), and Mary Edna Bowlby 1945-2022). Lloyd and Georgina made their home in North Shields on the north side of the River Tyne in Northumberland Co. Lloyd Ingram Bowlby was aboard the SS Walter L M Russ when it met with tragedy on July 16, 1945. The vessel, en route from Methil, Scotland, to Cardiff, Wales, struck Grassholm Island, located 16 miles off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, and was wrecked in St. George's Channel. Sadly, Bowlby drowned in the incident. The ship, originally seized by the Allies in May 1945 at Schleswig, Germany, had been transferred to the British Ministry of War Transport and was set to be renamed Empire Concourse. However, its journey ended prematurely when it ran aground on July 15, 1945. Of the crew of seventeen, nine crew members were rescued by the Angle Lifeboat Elizabeth Elson, under the command of Coxswain James Watkins, who was awarded a RNLI Bronze Medal for his heroic efforts. Lloyd is not listed in Veterans Affairs’ Canadian Virtual War Memorial or Canada’s Books of Remembrance in Ottawa, nor is he commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Sources: findagrave UK, Merchant Seamen Deaths, 1939 -1953 Lifeboat Magazine Archive of the RNLI