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Military service
Age:
42
Rank:
Greaser
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
RMS MISSANABIE (London, England) (136705)
Birth:
January 1, 1876
Bootle, England
Death:
September 9, 1918
North Atlantic
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Son of James O’Neill and Mary McConny of Bootle, Lancashire, England. Husband of Mary Ann Mort of Kirkdale, Liverpool, Lancashire. Father of Ellen, Catherine and Alice O’Neill.
The Missanabie was en route from Liverpool, England, to Quebec City and Montreal, Quebec, when on 9 September 1918 she was torpedoed by UB-87 52 miles (84 km) off Daunt's Rock, Cork, Ireland. She sank with 45 of her crew, position 58°11'N/07°25'W.
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Greaser John O'Neill
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Greaser John O'Neill
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Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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