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Able Seaman George Alfred Hines

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Military service

Age: 74
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Tremoda (London)
Birth: September 12, 1866 Barton, Wentworth, Ontario
Death: August 27, 1941 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 110.
Additional information
Son of Henry Harrison Hines and Margaret Pamelia Shafer of Hamilton, Ontario. Husband of Mary Jane Hatley of East Flamboro, Wentworth, Ontario. Father of Margaret May, Albert Percival, George Reginald, First World War veteran, regimental number 57342, fought in France with the 20th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and of Jessie Iona Hines.

On 27 August 1941, at 2:05 am, while sailing with convoy OS-4, Tremoda was torpedoed by U-557 west of the Achill Islands, west of Ireland, and sunk in position 53°36'N/18°40'W. The captain, 25 crew members and 6 gunners lost their lives. The 20 shipwrecked sailors and one gunner were rescued by the Free French frigate Chevreuil, which landed them in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 261 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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