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Seaman Charles Handy

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Military service

Age: 26
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: MV. Stureholm (Gotherburg, Sweden)
Birth: December 29, 1913 Ottawa, Ontario
Death: December 11, 1940 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Adélard Royal Handy.

Son of Charles Handy and Alphonsine Joleau of Ottawa, Ontario.

On 29 November 1940, Stureholm left Halifax harbour, Nova Scotia, with convoy HX-92, and headed for Hull, England. On 12 December, at 1.56 am, she was torpedoed by U-96 north of Ireland, position 57°50'N/08°40'W. The ship sank in 11 minutes and none of the 32 crew members survived.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 149 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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