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Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Second Cook
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Grayburn (London, England) (166570)
Birth:
June 25, 1905
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 29, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of Claude Ranald Hemeon and Lydia Cunningham Smith of Port Clyde, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Nephew of Saper Vance Alton Hemeon, regimental number 695478, 4th Company, Canadian Railway Troops, Canadian Expeditionary Force, killed in action in France on 12 December 1917.
A member of convoy HX-133, she was torpedoed at 0030 hours on 29 June 1941 by U-651 and sank off Iceland, position 59°30'N/18°07'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 154 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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