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In memory of:

Seaman Maurice Christopher Frank Lethbridge

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Military service

Age: 25
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Starling (London, England) (162483)
Birth: December 11, 1914 Stonewall, Manitoba
Death: October 12, 1940 Bay of Biscay, Spain

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Son of Christopher Frederick Thomas Lethbridge and Edith Crocker of South Kinnington, London, England. Husband of Ellen Victorine Leat of Bath, Somerset, England. Father of a child.

On 12 October 1940, Starling went on the offensive and was hit by enemy gunfire between 3 and 8 miles (5 and 13 km) south-west of San Sebastien, Spain, in the Bay of Biscay, and was damaged, position 18°29'N/48°36'W. She was en route from Gibraltar to Liverpool, England. Two sailors were killed.

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Page 174 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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