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Son of Thomas William Woodley Goodwin and Matilda Di Angelis of Montréal, Québec.
On October 8, 1940, the Natia was sailing in ballast from London, England, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she was intercepted off Fortaleza, Brazil, by the German raider Thor (HSK-4), which fired 35 cannon shots and a torpedo, killing two sailors and wounding two others, and sank her, position 00°44'N/31°12'W. The 84 survivors were locked in the hold of the Thor with the 264 other civilian prisoners. In mid-November, they were all transferred to the Rio Grande, a German blockade-runner, and landed in Germany.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 144 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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