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Steward Ernest George Madge

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Military service

Rank: Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Lachinedoc (Fort William, Ontario) (147430)
Birth: Okehampton, England
Death: February 12, 1942 Georgetown, Bahamas

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Son of George Henry Madge and Amelia Ann Rhoda Morris of Okehampton, Devonshire, England.


During the First World War, he enlisted on 2 August 1914 in the Royal Army Service Corps of the British Army, regimental number M-279110. He was wounded in action in France in September 1915 and brought back to England. He suffered a motorbike accident in mid-September 1916 and underwent a long convalescence. He was demobilized on 25 February 1919 as a private, having been demoted from corporal on 30 March 1918.

A steward on board the SS Lachinedoc, he died in hospital in Georgetown, Bahamas, as a result of head injuries.

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Page 182 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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