Name: PITT, JOHN KEITH
Initials: J K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Fifth Engineer Officer
Regiment: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Kohinur (London)
Age: 21
Date of Death: 15/11/1940
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 62.
Cemetery: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

John Pitt was serving on the S.S. Kohinur of the ASIATIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.

The 1922 built Kohinur was sunk when she was torpedoed 250 miles south of Freetown in the South Atlantic, on the 15th of November 1940, by the U-Boat U65. [KrvKpt. Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen (Knights Cross)]