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Military service
Age:
41
Rank:
Second Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Saint Malo (Ottawa, Ontario) (142298)
Birth:
October 17, 1898
Digby, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 12, 1940
West of Hebrides Islands, Scotland
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of William St. Clair Winchester and Almira J. Blackford from Digby, Nova Scotia. Husband of Marion Anna Gertrude Redmond from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Father of Donald R. and Aileen Lorraine Winchester.
300 miles (483 km) west of the Hebrides Islands, Scotland, on 12 October 1940, at 23:25, the Saint Malo was sailing with convoy HX-77 when she was torpedoed by U-101. She broke in two and sank, position 57°58'N/16°32'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 251 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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