Elias

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John Elias, the son of Alderman D J Elias of Bangor was a fellow shipmate with a John Edwards on the SS Acajutla and SS Oropesa.

Phil Edwards, Johns son has been in touch with some images and info. If you are a relative of John Elias or know of relatives then please get in touch with us/Phil.

2 images in the gallery here: http://www.bangorcivicsociety.org.uk/pages/hpi/results.html?d=john+elias

Further below...

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Entry in a Liverpool newspaper, either the Post or Echo, listing those, including John Elias, who had passed their BOT certificates

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EDWARDS, Third Officer, JOHN PERCY, S.S. Oropesa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 16th January 1941. Age 29. Son of John Kynaston Edwards and Nellie Gertrude Edwards; husband of Doris May Edwards, of Walton, Liverpool.

ELIAS, Third Engineer Officer, JOHN, S.S. Oropesa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 16th January 1941. Age 38. Son of Alderman D. J. Elias and Mrs. Elias, of Bangor, Caernarvonshire.

Part of the casualty list of those lost when the SS Oropesa was torpedoed

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The one sitting on the rail is John Edwards and the other person is John Elias

The Johns on the SS Acajutla anchored at Colon in 1933