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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
4th Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Fort Pelly (London, England) (168346)
Birth:
January 1, 1913
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
July 20, 1943
Augusta, Sicily
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of George Edwin Walsby and Mary Cramer from Kamloops, British Columbia.
Early on 20 July 1943, the Fort Pelly was unloading munitions in the port of Augusta, Sicily, when she was targeted, bombed and sunk by German Ju-88 aircraft of the III/KG54. The cargo exploded, killing 40 men.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 245 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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