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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Boatswain
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Philipp M (London, England) (147908)
Birth:
April 5, 1905
Berg, Whalsay, Shetlant Islands
Death:
February 24, 1944
North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 81.
Additional information
Son of Walter Leask and Elizabeth Ann Robertson. Husband of Elizabeth Isabella Hughson of South Shields, Durham, England. During the First World War, Leading Seaman Walter, regimental number 2360c, served on HMS Virginian and died on 11 April 1917 of wounds sustained on the 8th at the dock in Liverpool, England, while coaling. Husband of Elizabeth Isabella Hughson of South Shields, Durham, England.
While member of the convoy FS 1371, the Philipp M. was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk by a Kriegsmarine Schnellboot with a loss of seven of her 25 crew, in position 52°45?N 2°2?E.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 172 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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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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