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Stewardess Mary Elizabeth <I>Oliphant</I> Oliphant
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Stewardess Mary Elizabeth Oliphant Oliphant

Birth
Maryport, Allerdale Borough, Cumbria, England
Death
9 Sep 1918
At Sea
Monument
London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England Add to Map
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Military Service-

Rank: Stewardess

Age: 37

Force: Merchant Navy

Unit: Canadian Merchant Navy

Division: S.S. 'Missanabie'


Daughter of John and Elizabeth Oliphant; wife of William John Oliphant.


Stewardess Mary Elizabeth Oliphant is commemorated on Page 55 of Canada's Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.

She is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.


Stewardess Oliphant is one of eight Canadian Women Mariners killed in action during wartime, and commemorated on a War Memorial Plaque, ceremoniously unveiled on 19 May 2002; it is affixed to an old-fashioned bandstand in Veteran's Park in Langford, British Columbia, Canada. It is believed to be the first world-wide war memorial dedicated to women merchant mariners who died at their posts in the two World Wars.


Those eight Women Mariners are:-

Stewardess Eliza (DEAN) KENNEDY,

Stewardess Jane (FOSTER) JOHNSTONE,

Stewardess Mary Elizabeth OLIPHANT,

Stewardess Hannah Russell (CRAWFORD) BAIRD,

Stewardess Lillie (COOK) GORBELL,

Second Cook Eileen POMEROY,

Stewardess Bride FITZPATRICK and

Second Radio Officer Maude Elizabeth STEANE.

Military Service-

Rank: Stewardess

Age: 37

Force: Merchant Navy

Unit: Canadian Merchant Navy

Division: S.S. 'Missanabie'


Daughter of John and Elizabeth Oliphant; wife of William John Oliphant.


Stewardess Mary Elizabeth Oliphant is commemorated on Page 55 of Canada's Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.

She is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.


Stewardess Oliphant is one of eight Canadian Women Mariners killed in action during wartime, and commemorated on a War Memorial Plaque, ceremoniously unveiled on 19 May 2002; it is affixed to an old-fashioned bandstand in Veteran's Park in Langford, British Columbia, Canada. It is believed to be the first world-wide war memorial dedicated to women merchant mariners who died at their posts in the two World Wars.


Those eight Women Mariners are:-

Stewardess Eliza (DEAN) KENNEDY,

Stewardess Jane (FOSTER) JOHNSTONE,

Stewardess Mary Elizabeth OLIPHANT,

Stewardess Hannah Russell (CRAWFORD) BAIRD,

Stewardess Lillie (COOK) GORBELL,

Second Cook Eileen POMEROY,

Stewardess Bride FITZPATRICK and

Second Radio Officer Maude Elizabeth STEANE.

Bio by: SJB Hearn

Inscription

1914 - 1918
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE HONOUR OF TWELVE THOUSAND OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS WHO HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA

MISSANABIE
LONDON
OLIPHANT M. E.

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