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Trimmer Edmund George Scott

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Military service

Age: 25
Rank: Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Toronto City (Bristol, England)(147337)
Birth: January 1, 1916 St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: July 2, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of George Scott and Margaret Jane Hughes from St. John’s, Newfoundland.

On 1 July 1941, at 6.25 pm, the Toronto City was torpedoed by U-108 500 miles (805 km) north of the Azores, in the North Atlantic, in position 47°03'N/30°00'W. She sank by the bow in 3 minutes. The 37 crew members, two gunners and three members of the meteorological service were never seen again.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 223 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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