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Military service
Age:
44
Rank:
Chief Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Chr. J. Kampmann (Montréal, Québec) (173233)
Birth:
January 1, 1898
Denmark
Death:
November 3, 1942
Caribbean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Husband of Mary Dorothea Mortensen, of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sailing with convoy TAG-18, she was torpedoed on 3 November 1942 at 2:02 am by U-160 northwest of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea, position 12°06'N/62°42'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 197 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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