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Seaman Stephen John Hopkins

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Military service

Age: 44
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Benlarig (Leith, Scotland) (118695)
Birth: April 26, 1872 Old Perlican, Bay de Verde, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: April 2, 1917 South Pacific

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Son of Henry Hopkins and Mary Jane (Jane) Hopkins  of Monroe Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

On 2 April 1917, the Benlarig, which had sailed from Fremantle, Australia, to Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), went missing in the Indian Ocean. She had been requisitioned by the British Admiralty as a collier and renamed Collier 617. It was always thought to be an act of sabotage. Hopkins' date of death is therefore approximate.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 35 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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