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In memory of:

Third Engineer Edward Oliver May

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Military service

Rank: Third Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Tiberton (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) (142861)
Birth: Dublin
Death: February 14, 1940 North Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
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Son of Walter May and Maude Adelaide Wynn of Swindon, Wilthire, England. Husband of Elsie Brown of Edmonton, England. Father of a child.

During the First World War, he enlisted voluntarily on 13 February 1918 in Montreal, Quebec, with the 1st Quebec Regiment, regimental number 3082042, of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Due to illness, he did not serve overseas. He fled hospital on 28 November 1918 and was declared a deserter on 18 January 1919.

On 19 February 1940, at 4:05 am, the Tiberton, sailing without escort, was hit by a torpedo launched from U-23. The ship broke in two and sank in 30 seconds approximately 33 miles (53 km) east of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland, in the North Sea, position 58°55'N/01°53'W. The captain and 33 crew members lost their lives.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 184 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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