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Military service
Age:
42
Rank:
Second Cook
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
SS Luz Blanca (Toronto, Ontario) (135259)
Birth:
January 1, 1876
Netherlands
Death:
August 5, 1918
North Atlantic
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Son of Maarten Visser, of 53, Hamerstraat, Bussum, Holland.
On 5 August 1918, the Luz Blanca was en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Tampico, Mexico, when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-156 35 miles (56 km) from Outer Gas Bouy in Halifax. Two sailors lost their lives.
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Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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