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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Melrose (Leith, Scotland) (123026)
Birth:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
March 15, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Hammond Avery and Mabel Mart Wallace.
On March 15, 1940, the Melrose sank near Ostend, Belgium, in the North Sea, after hitting a mine was laid on March 9, by the German ship Schiff II, position 51°21'N/02°13'E. Seventeen sailors lost their lives.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 89 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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