Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Elijah Barnsley
In memory of:
Chief Engineer Elijah Barnsley
March 11, 1917
Military Service
43
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Kwasind (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Angleterre) (England) (104263)
Additional Information
Son of Charles Barnsley and Hannah Moore. Husband of Cicely Isabella Knott, 3 Beaumont St., North Shields. Father of Alice, Cecily, Minnie, John M., Ethel and Lionel Barnsley, all born in England.Charles was Captain in the Merchant Navy. Born at North Shields.
On March 11, 1917, the Kwasind, a Canadian steamship, struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-4 off Southwold, in the North Sea, and sank with twelve sailors, position 52°08'N/01 °45'E.
Commemorated on Page 11 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
N/A
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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