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Assistant Cook James Chadwick

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Military service

Age: 23
Rank: Assistant Cook
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: H.M.H.S. Glenart Castle (Southampton, England (13334)
Birth: San Francisco
Death: February 26, 1918 Celtic Sea

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Son of George Chadwick and Sarah Cilman, of Beaumont, Esquimalt, British Columbia.

This cargo ship converted into a hospital ship was torpedoed on 26 February 1918 by UC-56 10 miles (16 km) west of Lundy Island in the Celtic Sea, United Kingdom, position 51°03'N/05°09'W, while en route to Brest, France, to take on board war wounded. The captain, 94 crew members and 58 passengers lost their lives.

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Page 18 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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