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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Third Mate
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. PORT DALHOUSIE (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) (133544)
Birth:
December 1, 1894
Auckland, England
Death:
March 19, 1916
North Atlantic
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Son of John Henry Ferdinand Spoor and Mary Ann Rewbridge from Auckland, Durham, England. Brother of Private Thomas Arnold Spoor, regimental number 476038, with PPCLI, killed in action in France on 4 June 1916.
On 19 March 1916, the Port Dalhousie was bound for Nantes, France, when she was torpedoed and sunk by UB-10 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the lightship Kentish Knock in the North Atlantic. Of the crew, seven were rescued while the remaining 19 crew members lost their lives.
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Third Mate Frank Erwin Spoor
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Third Mate Frank Erwin Spoor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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