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Name: MACIEL, Mathias Joseph
Birth Date: 4 Oct 1900 Nagpur, British India
Death Date: 23 Nov 1942 killed at sea on SS Tilawa by Japanese enemy action
First Date: 1926
Last Date: 1942
Profession: Stenographer/Secretary - Kenya Secretariat
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Mombasa 1 May 1926 Moira Josephine D'Sa b. 25 Dec 1903 Zanzibar, d. 1935 2. Maria Efgenia Fernandes
Children: 1. Joseph (31.3.1927 Nairobi-5.6.2005 Bombay); Mervyn (19.9.1929 Nairobi); Wilfred (7.4.1932 Nairobi-29.7.1994) 2. Josephine (1939); Francis (1941); Yvonne (1942)
Book Reference: EAWL
School: Matriculate of Bombay University
General Information:
Source: Mervyn Maciel
Goan
Mervyn Maciel: A very efficient stenographer, more of a secretary'PA to his boss. He worked in both the Secretariat and Governor's Conference Secretariat in Nairobi. The pity is that my Dad was on the upper deck with the little babe when the first torpedo was fired at around midnight. He rushed down quickly to wake my step-mother and the young children only to find that the second torpedo had been fired which then brought the ship down. We got this information from Dad.'s Cabin boy who was one of the survivors.