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Ordinary Seaman Gordon Lyle Chase

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Hoegh Silverdawn (Oslo, Norway)
Birth: November 9, 1923
Death: June 15, 1943 Indian Ocean

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
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Son of Elizabeth Chase, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

The Norwegian motor vessel Hoegh Silverdawn, en route from Fremantle, Australia, to Basra, Iraq, with a military cargo, was bombed and torpedoed by the German privateer Michel and sunk south-east of the Cocos Islands, Keeling, in the Indian Ocean, position 25°40’S/92°00’E.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 112 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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