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Second Engineer Thomas Buckingham

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Military service

Age: 45
Rank: Second Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Victolite (Victoria, British Columbia) (160197)
Birth: November 25, 1896 Fort Townsend, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: February 11, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of John Buckingham and Agnes Ronayne, of Newfoundland. Husband of Agnes Irene MacDougall of New Waterford, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Father of Kathleen Jean and Jacqueline Edith Buckingham.

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.

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Page 103 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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