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Master George Rupert Marsters

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Military service

Age: 49
Rank: Master
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SV Port Jackson (Aberdeen, Scotland) (84362)
Birth: December 13, 1867 Newport, Nova Scotia
Death: April 28, 1917

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of Captain Robert James Marsters and Margaret Ann Musgrove of Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia. Husband of Jennie Adams of Deep Brook, Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Father of Neva Viola and George Wilford Marsters.

On 28 April 1917, this four-masted barque was en route from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Cork, Ireland, when she was torpedoed by U-67 180 miles (290 km) north-west of Fasnet, Ireland, and sank, position 51°00'N/14°02'W. The captain and 13 crew members lost their lives.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 46 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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