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Vivian Beaumont Wake 67544 v
30.11.1895 - 10.10.1942

Vivian Beaumont Wake was born in Simon's Town and matriculated at SACS whereafter

he joined the South African Railways. In August 1914 he enlisted in the RNVR and saw
action as a gunner in East Africa between 1914 – 17, and was in the UK from 1917 - 19.

After the Armistice he returned to Cape Town

In 1920 he married Mona Doyle in Claremont and they had three sons. In 1939 the family

moved to Kalk Bay, eventually settling in "Duxbury", 224 Main Road, Kalk Bay. Not
much is known of him during these years but Clive Wake recalls: "My father used to go

out with the Kalk Bay fishermen in their boats as he was a very keen fisherman. We have a

photo of him with a huge steenbras he caught (almost as big as himself)".

In June 1940 Vivian Wake enlisted again, as an Able Seaman in the SDF. He served in a
variety of merchant ships in the Atlantic, Middle and Far East. His last ship was the

Bandar Shahpoor and it was while serving with her in the Persian Gulf that he fell ill. He

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