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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Chr. J. Kampmann (Montréal, Québec) (173233)
Birth:
September 29, 1922
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 3, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21.
Additional information
Son of William Henry Dymott and Edith Fanny Chalcroft of Toronto, Ontario.) William Henry enlisted on September 7, 1914, in Milton, Ontario, in the 20th Regiment (Guarding Armouries), regimental number 11125. Transferred to the 4th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, he fought in France, where he was wounded twice in action. He was Mentioned in Despatches (MID) on June 1, 1917, by Sir Douglas Haigh for "distinguished service and gallantry and devotion to duty in the field" The London Gazette 30107 of August 9, 1917. He was demobilized as a Sergeant on February 28, 1919.
Sailing with convoy TAG-18, she was torpedoed on November 3, 1942, at 2:02 a.m. by U-160 northwest of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea, position 12°06'N/62°42'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 130 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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