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First Mate Gilbert McDonald McColl Smith

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Military service

Age: 53
Rank: First Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Lilian Moller (Shanghai, China) (142364)
Birth: January 1, 1887 Dumbarton, Scotland
Death: November 18, 1940 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 17.
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During the First World War, he enlisted in the Royal Navy Reserve on 16 October 1915 with the rank of lieutenant. He was demobilized on 16 October 1917.

On 18 November 1940, the Lilian Moller sailed from Calcutta, India, to London, England, with convoy SL-53, which dispersed. At around 5 pm, the cargo ship was torpedoed 250 miles (402 km) north-west of Ireland by the Italian submarine Maggiore Francesco Baracca (I-10) and sank in position 52°57'N/18°05'W or 53°N/17°'W, depending on the source. The entire crew of 50 sailors, including the captain, lost their lives.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 229 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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