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Military service
Age:
42
Rank:
Sailor
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division:
SS Watauga, schooner (St. John’s Newfoundland) (126115)
Birth:
October 21, 1875
James Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
March 27, 1918
North Atlantic
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Son of George Hancock and Elizabeth Heines of St. John's, Newfoundland). Eli married in the 1st marriage Mary Miller of Trinity, Newfoundland, and in the 2nd marriage Mary Jane Head of St. John's, from whom he had a son, Allan Eli Hancock.
On 27 March 1918, after leaving the port of Santa Polo, Spain, this sailing ship was attacked, boarded and scuttled by a German U-boat team from U-155 and sunk 450 miles (724 km) northwest of Lisbon, Portugal, position 38°54'N/18°24'W. Five sailors lost their lives.
Digital gallery of Sailor Eli Hancock
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Sailor Eli Hancock
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 33 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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