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In memory of:

Galley Boy Samuel Davis

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Galley Boy
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Justitia (London, England) (153736)
Birth: December 13, 1920 North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death: November 22, 1940 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Michael Patrick Davis and Maud Evans, of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

On 23 November 1940, Justicia was sailing with convoy SC-11 when, at 00:18, she was hit amidships by a torpedo launched from U-100 about 160 miles (258 km) west of Bloody Foreland, Donegal, Northern Ireland. The captain, 12 crew members and one gunner lost their lives. The 25 other sailors and one gunner were rescued by the British destroyer HMS Enchantress (L56) and landed in Liverpool, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 123 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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