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Fireman William Nelson Stewart

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Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Geraldine Mary (St. John's, Newfoundland) (151629)
Birth: April 20, 1910 Motherwell, Scotland
Death: August 4, 1940 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 52.
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Son of William Stewart and Mary White from Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Husband of Mary Ellen Nicholson from Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, Father of Margaret Rose Valentine Stewart.

She was en route from Botwood, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Manchester, England, with convoy HX-60 when on 4 August 1940, at 9:22 am, she was torpedoed by U-62 and sank two hours later 270 miles (435 km) west-northwest of Bloody Foreland, Northern Ireland, position 56°46'N/15°48'W. The attack resulted in the death of one passenger and two crew members. There were 27 survivors.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 271 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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