Chief Radio Officer Earl Bach

Son of George Conrad Bach et d'Anna Mary Koch, Kitchener, Ontario. During the First World War, George enlisted at Waterloo, Ontario, on April 25, 1915, with the 118th Battalion, C Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Regimental Number 751706. On September 29,1916, he was declared a deserter.

On July 27, 1942, at 2:14 p.m., she was sailing with convoy FN-20 when she was torpedoed twice by U-752 west of Africa, position 04°N/18°W. The ship broke in two and sank immediately with its captain, sixteen crew members and a gunner. The survivors were rescued on July 31, by the SS Luckenbach and landed in Cape Town, South Africa, on August 12.