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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Chief Radio Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Susan Maersk (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (165178)
Birth:
October 29, 1912
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 13, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
On 12 June 1941, at 1:22 am, U-553 fired a torpedo at convoy OG-64 and hit the Susan Maersk, straggler, some 370 miles (596 km) north-north-east of the Azores. The ship sank in 90 seconds, in position 44°45'N/25°15'W. The captain, the 22 crew members and a gunner lost their lives. The attack left no survivors.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 177 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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