CN Co. 2'E Sinkiang. Andrew Behan has researched this man:
Second Engineer Officer James Patrick Clarke was born in either 1909 or 1910 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His last recorded home address was 34 Stenhouse Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland where he lived with his sister Mrs D Boyle, who was his next of kin.
He was appointed the Second Engineer Officer of the China Navigation Co Ltd owned S.S. Sinkiang, a 2,646 tons cargo vessel, and was aboard her when it left Calcutta (now Kolkata) along the Hooghly River at 18.00 hours on 4 April 1942 bound for Columbo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Early in the morning of 6 April 1942 it was sighted by an aeroplane from the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo and an unsuccessful attempt was made to bomb the ship. Later that morning a Japanese cruiser closed up on the Sinkiang and sank it with gunfire. He was one of several people aboard the Sinkiang who survived in lifeboats, but died of his wounds, aged 32 years, on 13 April 1942 in the Government Hospital at Berhampore, West Bengal, India and was buried in Plot L, Grave 66A in the Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, 15 Debendra Lal Khan Road, Kolkata, India.
