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Military service
Age:
57
Rank:
Chief Cook
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. George L. Torian (St. Catharines, Ontario) (149070)
Birth:
September 7, 1884
Farran’s Point, Ontario
Death:
February 22, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of George Louis Pomeroy and Rhoda Bush of Farran's Point, Stormont, Ontario. Husband of Lillie Catherine Cunningham from New York. Father of Doris Laura Agnes, Kathleen Agnes, Mary May Lilly, Harold Frederick, Douglas George and Rita Mary Mildred Pomeroy. He lived in common-law with Eileen Dudley, who took the Pomeroy name and died in the wreck of the George L. Torian.
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.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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