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Fireman John Franklin Ball

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Victolite (Victoria, British Columbia) (160197)
Birth: December 13, 1913 Port Stanley, Elgin, Ontario
Death: February 11, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Philo John Ball and Olive Grace West, Port Burwell, Ontario.

He previously served on the tanker SS Trontolite as fireman.

According to the logbook of the submarine U-564, she was torpedoed on February 11, 1942, and sank at about 6:05 a.m. 260 nautical miles (299 miles/480 km) north-north-west of Bermuda after being hit by two torpedoes, resisting an explosive scuttling charge and 98 shots from a deck gun, position 36°12'N/67°14'W. There were no survivors out of a crew of 47 members.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 90 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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