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Chief Radio Officer Paul Ford Keenleyside

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Military service

Age: 32
Rank: Chief Radio Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Hoegh Silverdawn (Oslo, Norway)
Birth: June 3, 1911 Regina, Saskatchewan
Death: June 15, 1943 Indian Ocean

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Clifford Benjamin Keenleyside and Emily Isbel Daly of Regina, Saskatchewan. Clifford served with the 95th Saskatchewan Rifles, the 7th London in Ontario and the 90th Winnipeg in Manitoba. In the First World War, he enlisted on 12 February 1916 with the 249th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served only in Canada and was demobilized on 13 February 1920 in Regina.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 164 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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