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In memory of:

Master Charles E Finlay

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Military service

Age: 61
Rank: Master
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Malo (Ottawa, Ontario) (142298)
Birth: May 14, 1879 Lymington, Hampshire, England
Death: October 12, 1940 West of the Hebrides Islands, Scotland

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Charles Patrick Finlay and Grace Ann Copland, of Hampstead, London, England. Husband of Jossin (aka Jessie) Ann Mulholland Corner, of Thedford, Ontario. Father of reverend Terence John, Patrick Charles and Kathleen Norah Finlay.

300 miles (483 km) west of the Hebrides Islands, Scotland, on 12 October 1940, at 23:25, the Saint Malo was sailing with convoy HX-77 when she was torpedoed by U-101. She broke in two and sank, position 57°58'N/16°32'W.

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Page 134 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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