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Oiler Burns Williams

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Military service

Age: 22
Rank: Oiler
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Liverpool Packet (Liverpool, Nova Scotia)
Birth: June 2, 1919 Green Harbour, Nova Scotia
Death: May 30, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Elisha Stuart Williams and Josephine Robertson Williams from Lockeport, Nova Scotia.

On 31 May 1942, she was sailing in a straight line without an escort when she was torpedoed at 1:40 a.m. by U-432. She broke in two and sank in less than two minutes 15 miles (24 km) west of Seal Island, off Nova Scotia), position 43°20'N/66°20'W. Two sailors lost their lives and 19 survived.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 248 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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