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Boatswain Carl Hayward Shaw

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Military service

Age: 32
Rank: Boatswain
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. El Lago (New York, U.S.A.) (221014)
Birth: March 6, 1910 Sandy Point, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: October 15, 1942 North Atlantic

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HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 22.
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Son of Samuel Stanley Shaw and Emily Margaret Nichols from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Brother of Lieutenant George Thomas Shaw of the 175th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served in the First World War and survived.

On 11 October 1942, at 7:59 pm, U-615 opened fire by sending two torpedoes towards the El Lago, which was sailing with convoy ONS-136 442 miles (711 km) east-north-east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic. The stern sank immediately and the bow sank a few minutes later in position 51°03'N/46°15'W. Of the 39 crew members, 14 defenders and six merchant seamen repatriated following the sinking, the captain and an engineer survived and were made prisoners of war.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 225 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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