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Apprentice George Dutton

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Military service

Age: 16
Rank: Apprentice
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Missanabie (London, England) (136705)
Birth: January 1, 1902 Liscard, Cheshire, England
Death: September 9, 1918

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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His full name is George Edward Dutton.

Son of John Dutton and Mary Elizabeth Witherington, of Liscard, Cheshire, England. John served with the Royal Navy in territorial waters from April 16, 1909 to July 15, 1915 then in the Mediterranean from July 16, 1915 to April 29, 1916 with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and again in territorial waters from April 30, 1916 to May 4, 1916. He was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

She was on route from Liverpool, England, to Quebec City and Montreal, Quebec, when on September 9, 1918, she was torpedoed by UB-87 52 miles (84 km) off Daunt's Rock, Cork, Ireland. She sank with 45 of her crew, position 58°11'N/07°25'W.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 25 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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