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She was born Eillen Dudley and took the name of her common-law husband Frederick Nelson Pomeroy who also perished in the sinking of the George L. Torian. A natural child, daughter of Nora Dudley from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wife of Kaarle August Halonen from Kupolo, Finland.
This ship was en route from Paramaribo, Suriname, to Trinidad, when on 22 February 1942, at 22:20, she sailed unescorted and was torpedoed by U-129 120 miles (193 km) south-southeast of Trinidad, off the coast of Guyana, position 09°13'N/59°04'W.
Second Cook Pomeroy is also commemorated on a memorial plaque affixed to a new eight sided old-fashioned bandstand in Veteran's Park in Langford, British Columbia. The plaque was unveiled by ex-merchant mariner Tom Osborne and Barbara Duncan on May 19, 2002 as a bugler sounded Reveille. It is believed to be the first war memorial anywhere in the world dedicated to women merchant mariners who died at their posts in the two world wars.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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