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Mr. Henry Alwyn Lamb (on the left) Henry Alwyn Lamb was born April 14, 1897 in Phenix City, Alabama but spent his boyhood in East Texas. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in April 1917 at Shreveport, Louisiana and took his training at the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois. He went overseas on the USS Texas and was aboard at the time of the surrender of the German fleet. He was one of two men chosen to serve as an honor guard in the review before King George of England. On board the Texas he was part of the "black gang" as a water tender. He was also a boxer while on the Texas. He was on the Texas when Mary Pickford came aboard and gave tins of cigarettes to all the crew. He was discharged from the Navy in September 1922 at Long Beach, California. After his discharge, he was employed as an engineer for Shell Oil Company and Great Lakes Pipeline Company. On February 23, 1943, he enlisted in the United States Merchant Marine and was sent to the officers’ training school at Fort Trumble, New London, Connecticut. He was commissioned as ensign on June 28, 1943 and was assigned to the SS J. Pinckney Henderson when it was commissioned at Houston, Texas. The ship was involved in a collision with the Panamanian flag tanker, J. H. Senior, while in convoy on August 19, 1943, and Lamb was killed. Only 4 of the crew of the SS J. Pinckney Henderson survived. Only six of the crew and armed guard aboard the Senior survived. Lamb and other casualties of the crew were buried in a mass grave at Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1943. In 1949, his remains were returned to the United States, and he was reburied in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Submitted by Robert E. Lamb, Jr., grandson of Henry A. Lamb |
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