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Seaman Delbert Auburn

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Military service

Age: 24
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Trident (Newcastle-on-Tyne) (140697)
Birth: June 24, 1916 Toronto, Ontario
Death: March 12, 1941 Birkenhead, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 227. Sec. 11. Gen.
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Son of Delbert Francis Auburn and Dorothy Mariam Cooper, Toronto, Ontario

On March 1, 1941, at 11:50pm, this freighter was at anchor off buoy 20C waiting to enter the River Tyne when a German aircraft bombed and severely damaged her, but she remained afloat for nearly two hours before sinking the next day at 1:40am. She was to be part of convoy FS-557. Some of the wounded sailors died in the following days.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 88 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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LIVERPOOL (ALLERTON) CEMETERY Lancashire, United Kingdom

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