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In memory of:

Cadet Arthur Stanley Peters

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Military service

Age: 16
Rank: Cadet
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Harmala (London, England) (164536)
Birth: January 1, 1927 South Shields, England
Death: February 7, 1943 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
Additional information
His real surname is Kalevesty transformed to Peters by the father.

Son of Angus Kalevesky (aka Peters) and ? Cobb of Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

On 7 February 1943, at 4.11 am, U-614 fired three torpedoes and hit the Harmala, which sank in position 55°14'N/26°27'W. The captain, 31 crew members, 10 gunners and a navy signalman were killed. The 11 survivors were recovered by the FFL Lobelia (K05), of the Forces de la France Libre, and landed at Greenock, Scotland.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 210 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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