Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Louis Gordon Markland
In memory of:
Second Engineer Louis Gordon Markland
September 16, 1918
North Atlantic
Military Service
29
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Acadian (Montréal, Québec) (124258)
Additional Information
Son of Daniel Markland and Sarah Ann Jones of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England. Husband of Annie Spooner of Newport Market, Montmouthshire, Wales. Father of Stanley Gordon Markland.
On 16 September 1918, she was sailing unescorted from Bilbao, Spain, to Ayr, Scotland, when she was torpedoed without warning at 22:25 by UB-117 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Trevose Head, England, in North Atlantic, position 50°25'N/05°16'W. Of her crew, 25 seafarers, including the captain, lost their lives. The sole survivor was rescued, position 50°25'10''N/05°15'59''W.
Commemorated on Page 46 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
N/A
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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