Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Walter Madore
In memory of:
Boatswain Walter Madore
November 2, 1942
North Atlantic
Military Service
35
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Hartington (London, England) (162716)
Additional Information
January 20, 1907
Woods Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
Son of Alfred (alias Alcide) Madore and Honorine Irène Gallant of Woods Island, Newfoundland. Brother of Private George Albert Madore, regimental number 1458, killed in action in France on 14 April 1917 while serving with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, and of Alfred, son, conscripted into the US Army on 17 September 1918, regimental number 3582, who never took part in the conflict.
On 27 October 1942, the Hartington left Halifax, Nova Scotia, with convoy SC-107 and headed for Belfast, Northern Ireland. On 2 November, at 4:52 am, U-522 fired four torpedoes at the convoy 450 miles (724 km) east of Belle Island, Newfoundland. One of them hit the Hartington. At 6:06 am, U-438 fired a torpedo at the same ship. The ship sank at 8.40 am, position 52°30'N/45°30'W, by a coup de grâce from U-521. The captain, 21 crew members and 2 gunners lost their lives. The 17 surviving sailors and 7 gunners were picked up by HMS Winchelsea (D46) and landed in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Commemorated on Page 263 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
Panel 55.
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
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