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In memory of:

Second Steward Wilfrid Edwin Cannell

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Military service

Age: 38
Rank: Second Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: RMS Lady Hawkins (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (155047)
Birth: Higher Bedington, Cheshire, England
Death: January 19, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 21.
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Son of James Joseph Coole Cannell and Annie Mary Shaw, of Birkenhead, England. Husband of Georgina Waugh, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Lady Hawkins was torpedoed on January 19, 1942, at 7:43 a.m. by U-66 and sank east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, position 35°N/72°30'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 107 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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