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Vincent Clement-Davies

The death of Vincent Clement-Davies in the sinking of the SS Umgeni, Nov 1917.
From Register of deaths of Passengers and Seamen at Sea.

Vincent Clement-Davies,
Vin, born Cecil Vincent Clement Davies, bapt 24 June 1889.
He used surname "Clement-Davies".
He mar Claudia Allaway [Claudia Mary Allaway, born 1892, Llanbedr, Gwynedd, dau of Rhys Allaway].
At death Vincent is described as living Harlech.

Vincent dies at sea, 1917:
He died Nov 1917 in the sinking of the SS Umgeni. He was age 28 yrs.
During WWI, the Umgeni was taken over by the Admiralty as a supply ship. It left the Clyde on 7 Nov 1917, in a convoy bound for Lagos, Nigeria. Travelling W of Ireland, the convoy hit bad weather on 9 Nov 1917 and was dispersed. The Umgeni was not seen after that date. Bodies thought to be that of some of the crew were later washed up on the W coast of Ireland.
See also British & Commonwealth Shipping Company Register. And discussion.
There were claims she was torpedoed but there is no evidence of this. Most likely she sank in the bad weather W of Ireland.
See report in The Times, 7 Feb 1918.
See admin granted 24 May 1919 to Vincent's widow. From here.
She is living Llanbedr at 2nd mar.

Claudia mar 2ndly, 27 Oct 1920, to Lionel Percy Kent [L.P. Kent, "Bob", born 1872, son of Rev. Charles Kent].
They mar in London. See mar cert from here. Also here.
Bob was a coffee planter. He had a coffee estate at Doddengudda, Mysore, S India.
He was the creator of Kent coffee, one of the main types of coffee in India.
Claudia and Angela joined him at Doddengudda in 1920.
Family moved to Somerset in 1926.
They lived Somerset. Bob divided his time between Somerset and managing his estate at Doddengudda.
They had a child that died in infancy.
Bob died at Madras, 1944.

Claudia mar 3rdly, 1949, to Lionel Charles Morgan [nephew of Bob, son of his sister].
Lionel was also a coffee planter.
Claudia died Nairobi, 1979.
Lionel remarried and died 1997.

Vincent and Claudia had issue:

Angela Clement-Davies,
born Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, 1918, after father's death.
(todo) See birth of Angela V. Davies, [GRO.UK], 2nd qr 1918, Henley, vol 3a p 1422.
Lived in India after the war.
She mar 1952 to Hans Trueb [Hans Alfred Trueb, born Zurich, Switzerland, 1922].
He was a coffee planter in India for Volkart Brothers.
They married in Bangalore.
They lived at the Lowlands Bungalow in Mangalore, where Hans managed the Volkart Brothers coffee curing plant.
Angela was a collector of the religious sculpture and art of India.
In 1967 Volkart Brothers withdrew from South India.
The family moved to New Delhi, where Hans worked for Nestlé.
They retired to Switzerland 1983.
He died Uerikon, Lake Zurich, 1985.
She died Zurich, 1991.
They had issue:
1. Claudia Trueb, mar Andrew Burn and had issue.
2. Paul Trueb.

The SS Umgeni.
From here.

Angela Trueb.
From here.

Dore & Rees auction house, Somerset.
- The Angela Trueb Collection