SON OF JANE MCCALLUM MUIR AND THE LATE DAVID MUIR; HUSBAND OF JANE SPARKS COCHRANE MUIR (NEE MCCAUGHEY), OF 645, YOKER RD., SCOTSTOUN WEST, GLASGOW. BORN AT GREENOCK.

The Cameronia was torpedoed on 15 April 1917 by the German U-boat U-33 while en route from Marseille, France to Alexandria, Egypt. She was serving as a troopship at the time and contained approximately 2,650 soldiers on board. The ship sank in 40 minutes, 150 miles east of Malta; taking 210 lives.^[4]Other sources report only 140 casualties.^[5] Most of the crew and embarked soldiers were picked up by the escorting destroyers HMS Nemesis andHMS Rifleman. The remainder of the survivors had sufficient time to take to lifeboats