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Donkeyman George Bertrand Jessop

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Donkeyman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Cornwallis (Vancouver, British Columbia) (150448)
Birth: January 1, 1925 Ontario
Death: December 3, 1944 Gulf of Maine

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Wayne Arthur Jessop and Lilian Reatha Carder of Chatham, Ontario. Wayne served as second engineer on SS Pollier. Brother of Wayne, fifth engineer, who perished with him.

On 3 December 1944, at 1000 hours, the Cornwallis had just left New York harbour, USA, and was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-1230 10 miles (16 km) off the US coast in the Gulf of Maine, position 43°59'N/68°20'W. The attack took the lives of the captain, 35 sailors and seven gunners.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 161 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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