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Fireman James Scannell

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Military service

Age: 31
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Koranton (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) (142863)
Birth: April 6, 1909 Cork
Death: March 28, 1941 North Atlantic

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HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 19.
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Son of George Scannell and Catherine Kenney from St. Finbarrs, Cork, Ireland. During the First World War, George served as a sapper in the Royal Engineers of the British Army, regimental number 311543, and was demobilized on 11 March 1919 for health reasons. Husband of Johanna Deasy of Crosses Green, Cork.

On 27 March 1941, she was sailing with convoy SC-25 from Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to Hull, England, when at 1:50 pm the Koranton was torpedoed by U-98 300 miles (483 km) south of Reykjavik, Iceland, position 58°51'N/22°36'W. The captain, 33 crew members and two gunners lost their lives.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 223 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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