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In memory of:

Cabin Steward George Raymond Sweeney

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Military service

Age: 16
Rank: Cabin Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Chr. J. Kampmann (Ottawa, Ontario) (173233)
Death: November 3, 1942 Caribean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 22.
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Son of Joseph Sweeney and Florence Louise Fox from Verdun, (Present day Montréal), Québec.

Sailing with convoy TAG-18, she was torpedoed on 3 November 1942 at 2:02 am 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 236 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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