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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Chief Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
SV Minas Queen, a three-masted schooner (St. John’s, Newfoundland) (133897)
Birth:
April 17, 1879
Petitcodiac, New Brunswick
Death:
August 26, 1917
North Atlantic
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Son of James Bunyan Kay and Augusta Emiline Gordon of Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick. Husband of Ruby Rushton and Mary MacAlony, both from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Father of Jessie Viola, Stillborn Male and Pearl R. Kay, from his first marriage, Frances Gertrude and Chipman Alfred Kay, from his second marriage.
On 26 August 1917, the Minas Queen was en route from Tonnay, France, to New York when she was boarded and sunk by gunfire from U-93 350 miles (563 km) north-west of Cap Finistère, France, position 46°23'N/10°24'W. The attack caused the death of her captain and 5 sailors.
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Cenotaph
His name as it is inscribed on the Tower Hill Memorial. The 480 fallen Canadians lost at sea, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Cenotaph
The tower Hill Memorial is located in London, England at Tower Hill and across from the Tower of London. This Memorial is dedicated to the 50,700 Commonwealth merchant seamen, fishing fleet workers and other on-board crew lost during the First World War. Included on this list are the 480 Canadians that gave their lives in the cause of the Great War. (J. Stephens)
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Chief Officer George Alfred Kay
Digital gallery of
Chief Officer George Alfred Kay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 39 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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