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Military service
Service number:
LT/JX 204787
Rank:
Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
H.M.S. Asbury
Death:
October 14, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10. Column 3.
Additional information
Native of Newfoundland, Canada.
Digital gallery of Seaman Hedley John Rowe
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S.S. Caribou
Seaman Hedley John ROWE was a passenger aboard the Newfoundland ferry 'S.S. Caribou' on 14 October 1942, when-without warning-it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. "The Caribou served the North Sydney-Port Aux Basques ferry run from 1925 until 1942, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. It sank with a loss of 136 lives. (Newfoundland Provincial Archives) -
Lowestoft Naval Memorial
Seaman Hedley John ROWE, a native of Newfoundland, is honoured at the Lowestoft Naval Memorial in Suffolk, England. (Photograph from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
Digital gallery of
Seaman Hedley John Rowe
Digital gallery of
Seaman Hedley John Rowe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 192 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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