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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Second Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Luz Blanca (Toronto, Ontario) (135259)
Birth:
August 22, 1888
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Death:
August 5, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 3.
Additional information
His full name is Goldwin Starr McMahon.
Son of Thomas Franklin McMahan and Tillie Irene Schmidt of Chatham, Ontario.
On 5 August 1918, the Luz Blanca was en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Tampico, Mexico, when she was torpedoed by U-156 35 miles (56 km) from Outer Gas Buoy in Halifax. Two sailors lost their lives.
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Second Steward Starr McMahon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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