Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Francis Daniel Simmons
In memory of:
Waiter Francis Daniel Simmons
October 20, 1917
St. George Canal, Wales
Military Service
17
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Ionian (Glasgow, Scotland) (113989)
Additional Information
January 1, 1900
Homerton, London, England
Son of Daniel Francis Simmons and Agnes Stapleton of 162, Falkner Street, Liverpool, England. Brother of Private Raphael Simmons, regimental number 2103486, Army Service Corps - Mechanical Transport, British Army, who fought in France in the First World War. He survived the war.
On 20 October 1917, she was en route from Milford Haven, England, to Plymouth, England, when she struck a mine in the St George’s Channel laid by UC-51 and sank 2 miles (3 km) west of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, Wales, position 51°35'N/04°59'W. The crew took refuge in the lifeboats when one of them capsized, drowning 7 of the 22 people on board.
Commemorated on Page 65 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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