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Military service
Service number:
LT/JX 299665
Age:
19
Rank:
Ordinary 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 Stanley C. and Mary D. Windsor, of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
Digital gallery of Ordinary Seaman Joseph William Henry Windsor
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S.S. Caribou
Ordinary Seaman Joseph William Henry WINDSOR 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)
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Ordinary Seaman Joseph William Henry Windsor
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Joseph William Henry Windsor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 205 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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