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Sailor John Sheehan

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Sailor
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division: Schooner L.H.B.
Birth: October 5, 1897 Broad Cove
Death: October 27, 1916 North Atlantic

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His full name is John Joseph Sheehan.

 

Son of Edward Sheehan Jr and Katherine Lawlor from Cappayhayden, Renews, Newfoundland.

The schooner L.H.B. was reportedly sunk by a German submarine while en route from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Gibraltar. However, no German submarine has claimed to have sunk her.

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Commemorated on:

Page 161 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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