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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Chief Radio Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Besholt (Oslo, Norway)
Birth:
January 1, 1921
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
December 2, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of John Albert Stone and Mary Beatrice Webber from Toronto, Ontario.
On 2 December 1942, the Besholt was torpedoed at 11:17 pm by U-174 between Matadi Y Lobito, West Africa, and Trinidad. The ship broke in two and sank in four minutes, in position 03°20'N/30°30'W. The captain, 11 crew members and 2 American passengers lost their lives.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 234 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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