Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Gordon Shewfelt
In memory of:
First Mate Gordon Shewfelt
January 16, 1940
Trinidad and Tobago
Military Service
43
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
RMS Lady Hawkins Nova Scotia) (155047)
Additional Information
October 17, 1896
Pembina, Manitoba
Son of Archibald Robinson Shewfelt and Rhoda Ann Wallcroft from Louise, Manitoba. Husband of Florence Elfreda May Webster from Gravesend, kent, England. Father of Gordon Archibald and Pauline May Shewfelt.
On 12 May 1919, he sailed from St-Nazaire, France, on board the SS Virginian as a gunner in Battery D, 111th Field Artillery, US Army, service number 3071277, to dock at Newport News, Virginia. He died of pneumonia in Trinidad and was buried there.
Commemorated on Page 226 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
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