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Able Seaman Gordon Kenneth Carew

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Livingston (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) (149470)
Birth: Port aux Basques
Death: September 3, 1944

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Son of Alexander Peter Carew and Julia Ayre, of Newfoundland.

On September 3, 1944, she was on her way to Newfoundland without escort when she was torpedoed at 8:45 a.m. off Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, by U-541 and sank with 14 crew members and one gunner, position 46°15'N/58°05'W. The captain, 12 sailors and a gunner were rescued by the Canadian corvette HMCS Barrie (K138) who landed them in St. John's, Newfoundland.

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Page 108 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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