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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Nyland (Oslo, Norway)
Death:
January 1, 1941
Off the Hebrides Islands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
The Nyland ran aground on the western reef of Torran Rocks, Iona, Hebrides Islands, Scotland. She slipped and sank on 5 December 1940, taking the lives of six of the twenty crew members.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 199 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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