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Seaman William Bouzan

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Military service

Age: 56
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. COQUET (London, England) (H831)
Birth: October 2, 1859 Western Bay, Conception Bay
Death: January 4, 1916

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Born in Newfoundland.

Son of Michael Bouzan and Clara English of Newfoundland.

On January 4, 1916, the Coquet was on route from Torreviega, Spain, to Rangoon, Burma, with a cargo of salt, when at about 10:45 a.m., the U-34 opened fire with its deck gun 200 miles (322 km) east of Malta. Boarded by a German team, the Coquet was scuttled and sunk, position 35°34'N/18°22'E. The 31 sailors were left to their fate. One of the two lifeboats landed on the shores of Libya six days later. The men were attacked by Arab Bedouins on an unknown date, killing three of them. Wounded, the captain feigned death while ten of his unidentified men were taken prisoner and taken into the desert. They were never seen again. Captain Groom took a different route and reached an Italian camp and was repatriated. So the date of Bouzan's death is approximate.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 13 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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