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Military service
Rank:
Sailor
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division:
SV W.C. McKay, Sailing schooner
Death:
January 10, 1918
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Son of Mrs. Maria Avela Torres, of Chanco, Chile.
Some websites claim that the schooner W.C. McKay was sunk by a German submarine off the Azores. However, no German commander claimed in his logbook to have sent her to the bottom. Her fate is unknown.
Digital gallery of Sailor Jose De La Cruz Torres
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
Digital gallery of
Sailor Jose De La Cruz Torres
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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