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In memory of:

Second Engineer Dudley Hoebridge Ross Grant

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Military service

Rank: Second Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Minorca (Leith, Scotland) (147193)
Birth: Calcutta, India
Death: February 26, 1941 Offshore Sheringham Shoal, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
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Son of George Ross Grand and Eliza Jane Woodsell of Calcutta, India.

Brother of Miss L. E. Grant, of Harrop, British Columbia.

On 26 February 1941, the Minorca was crossing from London, England, to Grangemouth, Scotland, when she was attacked and sunk by the German speedboat S-28 off Sheringham Shoal, Suffolk, England. Her captain, 16 crew members and 2 passengers lost their lives.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 145 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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