Canteen Manager Joseph AGIUS, HMS Mohawk, Navy Army & Air Force Institute: 16/04/1941

Remembering Today

Casualty
Canteen Manager AGIUS, JOSEPH
Died 16/04/1941
H.M.S. Mohawk
Navy Army and Air Force Institute
Commemorated at PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Location: Hampshire, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 24662
Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 61, Column 2.

 

Hmm could be interesting

UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960
Name: Joseph Agius
Event: Death
Birth Date: 22 May 1909
Birth Place: Senglea, Malta
Death Date: 21 May 1941
Death Age: 31

From the attached image it show (I think) 3 Agius brothers all killed in 1941
Giovanni - HMS Fiona
Joseph - NAAFI - HMS Glorious
Joseph - HMS Juno

None of them match your date 16 Apr 1941

TD

The table of results gives:
Joseph Agius Death 21 May 1941

Giovanni Agius Death 18 Apr 1941

Joseph Agius Death 9 Jun 1940

Emmanuel Agius Death 9 Jun 1940

 

Something odd here. Naval-history.net spells his name AGUIS. TD - can you try punching that into your data bank?
Royal Navy Casualties, killed and died in WW2, by Name - Aall to Azzopardi
Tim

 

Using Aguis

In the database as above the only 1 is
Name: Theresa Aguis
Event: Marriage
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 2 Dec 1880
Marriage Place: Collegiate Ch. of St Pauls Valetta Island of Malta
Spouse: Alfred Reed
Child: Alfred Arthr Reed

There are couple noted a POW's in WW2
John Aguis 231 R.M.T.C., R.A.S.C. Wistritz bei Teplitz, Czech Republic MA6082 94173 4C

Victor Aguis 231 R.M.T.C., R.A.S.C. Wistritz bei Teplitz, Czech Republic MA6119 94467 4C

So we know that surname works and exists

In the image there is another hand written note saying "See folio 85 entry no 1" - i have no idea where that is or how to find it

TD

 

TD - in my link above there is also Emmanuel AGUIS, E/LX23547, Asst Steward lost in HMS Glorious at same time as the Joseph AGIUS, Canteen Assistant listed in your Post 2. E in the Official Number stands for MALTA LEP (Locally Entered Personnel).
Tim

 

Well the page preceeding the one I uploaded above shows Emmanuel

UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960
Name: Emmanuel Agius
Event: Death
Birth Date: 21 Dec 1914
Birth Place: Valletta, Malta
Death Date: 9 Jun 1940
Death Age: 25


So that still leaves what seems to be 2 x Joseph Agius -- ??

TD

 

TD

CWGC spells them all AGIUS. There is only one AGUIS and he was a Boatswain in the MN. I think the Joseph you are looking for is the handwritten one - See Folio 85 entry No.1, which you identified earlier. This is written on Folio 22 so I think Folio just means page. Can you go to Page 85 and see what the first entry is and if it's him?


noun: folio; plural noun: folios
1.
an individual leaf of paper or parchment, either loose as one of a series or forming part of a bound volume, which is numbered on the recto or front side only.

Tim

 

Well - thanks for explaining the word folio to me - the things you can learn

As the database [if looked at] is in alphabetical order, page 85 is full of those names starting App such as Appleby, Applegarth, Appleton