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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Greaser
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Box Hill (London, England) (144931)
Birth:
December 15, 1914
Stony Plain, Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
December 31, 1939
North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Samuel Svensen Lunde and Emma Eriksen of Sobergsg, Norway.
On 31 December 1939, the Box Hill detonated a mine laid by the Germans and sank 9 nautical miles (10.4 miles/16.7 km) off the Humber lightship off Hull, England, in the North Sea. She broke in two and took all 22 crew members with her.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 177 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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