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Seaman Alexander Blake

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Military service

Age: 25
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. ARCADIAN (Belfast, Irlande du Nord) (110613)
Birth: Gander Bay South
Death: April 15, 1917

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Born in Newfoundland. Husband of Amelia Snow, of Hare Bay, Change Islands, Newfoundland. Father of Cecile Leslie Blake.

On April 15, 1917, the Arcadian, transformed into a troop transport, had just finished an exercise with 1,335 soldiers when it was torpedoed by UC-74 26 miles (42 km) north-east of the island of Milos, in the Cyclades archipelago, Greece. It sank in six minutes, position 36°50'N/24°50'W. In the whirlpool caused by the ship, 277 men lost their lives, including 34 crew members. The 1 0 58 survivors were rescued by the escort ships.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 12 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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