MacMillan, William

Chief Engineer

HM Cable Ship Straide, Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy)

Died of disease on Friday 8 August 1941 (aged 40)

Buried:

Larne New Cemetery (Section 10 Block E Grave 883)

Commemorated:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

BIOGRAPHY

Chief Engineer William MacMillan died of diphtheria at Newtownards District Hospital on 8 August 1941.  Born around 1901, he was a son of William J. Macmillan and Jessie Agnes Kinlay Tulton Macmillan.  He was the husband of Mary MacMillan of Larne, Co Antrim.

Chief Engineer William MacMillan was buried in Larne New Cemetery (Section 10 Block E Grave 883) and there is a personal inscription on his headstone:

PEACE WITH GOD