Apprentice Douglas Redfern

Son of Thomas Lincoln Redfern and Jessie May Lincoln from Montreal, Quebec. During the First World War, he enlisted on 9 November 1915 with the Coldstream Guards of the British Army, service number 25455.

On 10 December 1941 the Nereus, which left St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, with ore, was sailing alone when it disappeared at sea. No German submarine claimed to have sunk her. Her wreckage has never been found. Sometimes coal boats accidentally caught fire from coal residue accumulated in the hold.