Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Cyril Harold Boddington
In memory of:
Second Cook Cyril Harold Boddington
October 27, 1942
Military Service
31
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Sourabaya (Jersey, Angleterre) (136347)
Additional Information
Son of Harold Gustavus Boddington and Daisy Olive Vickers, of Corona Del Mar, California, U.S.A.; Husband of Mary Hulley, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
On October 27, 1942, she was sailing with convoy HX-212 when she was torpedoed at 11:03 p.m. by U-436 about 700 miles (1,227 km) southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland, position 54°32'N/31°02'W. Her captain, 36 crew members, 24 passengers, 16 employees and four gunners were rescued by the Canadian corvettes HMCS Alberni (K103) and HMSC Ville de Québec (K242) which landed them in Liverpool, England. The attack on the Sourabaya resulted in 77 casualties.
Commemorated on Page 97 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
Panel 132.
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
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