Mess Room Boy Robert Gordon Siteman

Son of Horace Gordon Siteman and Julia Odie Traynor from Lower Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia. During the Second World War, Horace enlisted on 16 March 1942 with the 26th Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Sent to England and then Scotland, he died of illness on 26 May 1943. He was posthumously awarded the Defence Medal, the 1939-1945 War Medal and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Bar.

Leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Ipswick, Suffolk, England, via Charleston, Virginia, on 12 February 1942, at 2:40 am, she was sailing unescorted when she was hit by a torpedo launched from U-108 160 miles (258 km) east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. After receiving a second torpedo, she sank at 3:34 am, position 35°00'N/72°27'W. Most of the crew perished after the sinking due to the very bad weather. On 14 February, only 6 of the 40 sailors were rescued by the American merchant ship SS Monroe, in position 33°34'N/71°41'W. They were taken to a hospital in Baltimore, Pennsylvania, on the 17th.