Henry Harron was a sugar boiler who was a passenger on the Japanese ship SS Hirano Maru which left Liverpool on its way to Yoko Hama in Japan. He was leaving the ship at Hong Kong to continue his journey to China. At about 5.30am on the 4 October 1918 she was torpedoed by a German submarine. The ship sank within 5 minutes, as the American destroyer Sterret went to the aid of the passengers in the water she was fired upon by the submarine. By the time the Sterret fought off the submarine the majority of passengers had drowned. Around 270 lives were lost, 8 bodies were washed up at Dale on the west coast of Wales, they were never identified. The people of Dale put up a memorial to them and still tend to their graves today.
Married with four of a family.
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