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Sailor John Coady

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Military service

Rank: Sailor
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division: SV Lake Simcoe (St. John’s, Newfoundland) (63836)
Death: September 1, 1915 North Atlantic

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Son of Mrs. Margaret Coady, of St. John's, Newfoundland.

 

This three-masted sailing ship left the port of Naples, Italy, on 17 November 1915 and headed for St. John's, Newfoundland. She and her crew of eleven sailors were never seen again. No German submarine has claimed to have sunk her. The date of death is the date of her departure.

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Commemorated on:

Page 19 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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