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Son of Leslie Miles Denniston and Jean Florence McHard, of St. John, New Brunswick.
On May 29, 1942, at 2:17 a.m., the Western Head was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-107 50 miles (70 km) east of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sank in Windward Passage, position 19°57'N/74°18'W.
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Commemorated on:
Page 124 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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