Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
LT/JX 225705
Age:
23
Rank:
Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
H.M.S. Asbury
Death:
October 14, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10, Column 3.
Additional information
Son of James and Rachel Vey, of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.
Additional citations
Mentioned in despatches
Digital gallery of Seaman William James Vey
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Photo of WILLIAM JAMES VEY
In memory of the men and women from the Clarenville, Newfoundland area who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the Clarenville Legion (Branch 27) for the project, Operation Picture Me -
S.S. Caribou
Seaman William James VEY was a passenger aboard the Newfoundland ferry 'S.S. Caribou' on 14 October 1942, when-without warning-it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. "The Caribou served the North Sydney-Port Aux Basques ferry run from 1925 until 1942, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. It sank with a loss of 136 lives." (Newfoundland Provincial Archives) -
Lowestoft Naval Memorial
Lowestoft Naval Memorial-Suffolk, England. (Photograph from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
Digital gallery of
Seaman William James Vey
Digital gallery of
Seaman William James Vey
Digital gallery of
Seaman William James Vey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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