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In memory of:

Chief Engineer Liston Clark Newell

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Military service

Age: 42
Rank: Chief Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Dunelm (Montréal, Québec) (123950)
Birth: September 16, 1873 Newhaven, Scotland
Death: October 17, 1915

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 3.
Additional information
Son of George Frederick Newell and Christina Hall Main of Leith, Scotland. Frederick was the father of sea merchant captain and Royal Navy lieutenant George Edward Newell. Husband of Henriette Christiane Svenningsen of Aarhus, Denmark. Father of Juliane Newell.

This ship, designed for the Great Lakes, was requisitioned and used for purposes other than its construction allowed. On her second Atlantic crossing, she left the port of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, on 15 October 1915 without radio equipment. On the 17th she was seen passing Cape Race, Newfoundland. She was officially reported missing on 12 January 1916 with her crew of twenty sailors. No German submarine claimed to have sunk her.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 53 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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