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Able Seaman Charles Harford Goodwin

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Military service

Age: 57
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Natia (Southampton, England) (145330)
Birth: June 29, 1883 St-Polycarpe
Death: October 8, 1940 South Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 131.
Additional information
His full name is Charles Richard Octonian Harford Goodwin.

Son of Thomas William Woodley Goodwin and Matilda Di Angelis of Montréal, Québec.

On October 8, 1940, the Natia was sailing in ballast from London, England, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she was intercepted off Fortaleza, Brazil, by the German raider Thor (HSK-4), which fired 35 cannon shots and a torpedo, killing two sailors and wounding two others, and sank her, position 00°44'N/31°12'W. The 84 survivors were locked in the hold of the Thor with the 264 other civilian prisoners. In mid-November, they were all transferred to the Rio Grande, a German blockade-runner, and landed in Germany.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 144 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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