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Able Seaman James Gerard Nahor was an Irish sailor of the Royal Navy who was killed during the Second World War.

He was born the son of John Thomas and Mary Nahor, of Castleblayney, County Monaghan, in the Irish Republic.

Despite Ireland's declared neutrality, Nahor served with the Royal Navy. He was killed on 25 November 1941, when the German U-boat U-331 torpedoed his ship, HMS Barham, in the Mediterranean, with the loss of 862 crewmembers.

Nahor, who was aged 21, has no known grave and is commemorated by the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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