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Watchman Edgar John Wilson

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Military service

Age: 27
Rank: Watchman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Ramapo (Panama) (146716)
Birth: September 20, 1914 Collingwood, Ontario
Death: February 12, 1942 Caribean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 22.
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Son of John James Wilson and Myrtle Jean Clarke from Collingwood, Ontario.

On 16 February 1942, the Ramapo was sailing unescorted from Bermuda to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when she was torpedoed at 6:56 am by U-108 180 miles (290 km) north of Bermuda, position 35°10'N/65°50'W. The 38 crew members lost their lives, 4 in the explosion and the 34 others lost at sea.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 250 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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