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Military service
Age:
41
Rank:
Third Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Kitty's Brook (St. John's, Newfoundland) (124076)
Death:
May 9, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Isaac Manse Crocker and Martha White, of Trout River, Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Husband of Ethel Maud Harris, of Channell, Newfoundland. Father of Shirley Crocker.
On 10 May 1942, at 3:10 am, she was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-588 35 miles (56 km) south-east of Cape des Sables, Nova Scotia, and sank in twenty minutes, position 42°56'N/63°59'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 119 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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