Able Seaman George William Kendall

Son of Robert Kendall and Mary Grace Eavis of Garston, Newfoundland. Husband of Mary Béatrice Béranger of Cannes River Bourgoise, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Father of two children and a third born out of wedlock to Mary Duggan.

On 15 July 1942, the Gloucester Castle sailed from Liverpool, England, to Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, with 12 passengers, 142 crew and 6 gunners. It was boarded by the German raider Michel, Schiff 28, and sunk by gunfire off the south-west African coast. The attack cost the captain, 92 passengers and crew their lives. Two lifeboats with 61 people were captured by the raider and the occupants were landed in Japan as prisoners of war.