Talking Stones - Danygraig Cemetery Hans Johnansen

Talking Stones……………Danygraig Cemetery 2

The Norwegian section of the Danygraig Cemetery, there are not many burials notable they are of Norwegian that have lost their lives during the Second World War.

The Norwegian footballer Sigurd Wathne who lost his life at Swansea Hospital, 26^th March 1941.  More information about Sigurd Wathne can be found in the following link

https://swanseafamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2020/08/sigurd-wathne-danygraig-cemetery.html

This blog is about Hans Johansen.

Hans Johansen is the only Norwegian who is buried under a Norwegian war grave.  His inscriptions reads

HER HVILER

NORSK SJOMANN

HANS JOHANSEN

20-3-1903 12-1-1942

 

FOR NORGE

1939 – 1945

 

Hans who served as Sailor/Donkeyman on board the Norwegian ship DS Edle lost his life due to a car accident in Swansea.  Hans’s hometown in Norway, was Sandar

 

DS Edle  log sheet for 1942, shows that the ship arrived into Swansea from Falmouth, on the 9th December 1941, then departing on the 30th December 1941, passing Mumbles Head on the 30th January and finally arriving at Poole on the 2nd February.

 

Could Hans have succumbed to his injuries from the  car accident?