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Mervyn Coote Loverock

Rank: Private
Street: Church Hill
Townland:
Town/Village: Newtownmountkennedy. Co. Wicklow
Civil Parish:
Catholic Parish:
Country:
Alternative Address: Finea, Co Westmeath/Cavan
Census 1901:
Census 1911:
Regiment/Unit: South African Infantry, 3rd Regiment / South African Yeomanry.
Regiment Number: 983
Date of Death: 19-07-1916
Cause: Killed in action
Memorial: Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, France
Information:

Mervyn was born 19 July 1875 in Finnea. His attestation birthplace was given as Finnea, Granard, however, Finea is in Co. Westmeath, very close to the Longford and Cavan borders; his birth was registered in the Granard district. An extract from The Irish Independent of August 1916 states 'Mr M C Loverock, S Africans, killed in action, was a son of Dr Loverock, Newtownmountkennedy'.

Pte Loverock became indentured as an apprentice in the merchant navy in September 1892 at Cardiff, Wales. On the 15 July 1897, he received a certificate of competency, No. 032047) in fulfilling the duties of a Second Mate in a Foreign-going ship, as a square-rigger (in this he gives his birthplace as Finea, Cavan.). Later he settled in South Africa and was a trooper in the Queens South African Yeomanry there. 

Mervyn had a large number of successors to his estate including his mother, brothers Richard and Robert and sisters Edith and Lillie*

Parents Names: Son of Mrs. Mary Barbara Loverock of Church Hill, Wicklow and the late Dr. R.G. Loverock.
Notes: *Mervyn's father and brother Harold pre-deceased him.
Links:

CWGC entryLink to mention of death in Irish Independent; Entry on the South African War Graves project

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