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Military service
Service number:
LT/JX 315667
Age:
19
Rank:
Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
HMS Asbury
Death:
October 14, 1942
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Son of William and Gertrude Bishop, of Cavendish.
Digital gallery of Seaman Eli Maxwell Bishop
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Photo of Eli Maxwell 'Max' Bishop
Eli Maxwell 'Max' Bishop of Cavendish, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Son of William and Gertrude (Wiltshire) Bishop. -
S.S. Caribou
RN Seaman Eli Maxwell BISHOP was aboard the Newfoundland ferry 'S.S. Caribou' on 14 October 1942, when-without warning-it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. The Caribou served the North Sydney-Port Aux Basques ferry run from 1925 until 1942, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. It sank with a loss of 136 lives. (Newfoundland Provincial Archives)
Digital gallery of
Seaman Eli Maxwell Bishop
Digital gallery of
Seaman Eli Maxwell Bishop
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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CAVENDISH CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY Newfoundland, Canada
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