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Steward Leonard Gordon Metcalf

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Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Stokesley (Cardiff, Wales) (145486)
Birth: January 1, 1910 Regina, Saskatchewan
Death: April 24, 1940 Thames Estuary, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. F. Grave 173.
Additional information

Son of Harold Brown Metcalf and Ellen Riley of Victoria, British Columbia.


During the night of 24 April 1940, three ships struck air mines off the Thames estuary, including the Stokesley, which was sailing from Antwerp, Belgium, to London, England. Fifteen sailors lost their lives.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 192 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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SHEERNESS (ISLE-OF-SHEPPEY) CEMETERY Kent, United Kingdom

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