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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Second Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
RMS Lady Hawkins (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (155047)
Birth:
Higher Bedington, Cheshire, England
Death:
January 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21.
Additional information
Son of James Joseph Coole Cannell and Annie Mary Shaw, of Birkenhead, England. Husband of Georgina Waugh, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Lady Hawkins was torpedoed on January 19, 1942, at 7:43 a.m. by U-66 and sank east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, position 35°N/72°30'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 107 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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