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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Western Head (Nassau, Bahamas) (159979)
Birth:
October 3, 1915
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Death:
May 28, 1942
East of Cuba
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Charles Wesley Palmer Jr and Caroline Josephine George of Saint John, New Brunswick. Husband of Freda Irene Priest of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.
On 29 May 1942, at 02:17 am, the Western Head was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-107 50 miles (70 km) east of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sank in Windward Passage, position 19°57'N/74°18'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 206 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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