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Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Greaser
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MT Finnanger (Bergen, Norway)
Birth:
December 2, 1910
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
February 26, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21.
Additional information
On 24 February 1942, she was sailing with convoy ONS-67 when the ships were attacked by a pack of German submarines off Cape Race, Newfoundland. On 1 March 1942, as the Finnanger was moving away from the convoy, U-158 fired two torpedoes at 11:53 am. At 12:15, the submarine surfaced and fired its guns. After moving away from it because of the merchant ship's return fire, the U-158 resumed firing and pierced the hull at the waterline. The Finnanger sank at 16:17 with its 40 crew members, including the captain, in position 38°40'N/58°38'W.
Digital gallery of Greaser James Clifford
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Memorial
This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Private James Earnest Clifford, born in Ottawa in April 1894. He eventually moved to Saskatchewan where he was a homesteader/farmer in the Leask area. He enlisted in March 1916 at Saskatoon. James Ernest Clifford was killed on September 1918 and is buried at Haynecourt British Cemetery, northwest of Cambrai. This plaque was originally located at the Loyal Orange #222 Billings Bridge; at the time, the village of Billings Bridge was a small community near the present day Billings Bridge in Ottawa. With the closure of the Lodge, the plaque eventually came into the hands of Gloucester Township Historical Society
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Greaser James Clifford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 114 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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