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First Mate Crann Oswald Davies

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Military service

Age: 33
Rank: First Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Stork (London, England) (165408)
Birth: August 26, 1907 Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Death: August 23, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 103.
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Son of Arthur Davies and Martha Susan Clercke. Husband of Eunice Mauce Mathews, of Matching Green, Essex, England. Father of two children.

On 23 August 1941, the Stork was sailing with convoy OG-71 between Preston, England, and Gibraltar when the ships were attacked at 2.14 am by U-Boat U-201. At 2:16 am, the submarine sent two more torpedoes which hit the Stork and the Aldergrove, which sank in position 40°43'N/11°39'W. The captain of the Stork, 16 crew members and two gunners lost their lives. The three surviving sailors were rescued by the British corvette HMS Campion (K108) and landed in Gibraltar on the 24th.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 259 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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