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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Trimmer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. HALIFAX (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (95099)
Birth:
January 1, 1890
Death:
December 12, 1917
North Atlantic
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Additional information
This ship left St. Michael's, Azores, on 11 December 1917 for Bordeaux, France, when she sank off the Azores Islands around 12 December 1917 from an unknown cause. No German submarine claimed this victory.
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Tower Hill Memorial. The 480 fallen Canadians lost at sea, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
The tower Hill Memorial is located in London, England at Tower Hill and across from the Tower of London. This Memorial is dedicated to the 50,700 Commonwealth merchant seamen, fishing fleet workers and other on-board crew lost during the First World War. Included on this list are the 480 Canadians that gave their lives in the cause of the Great War. (J. Stephens)
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Trimmer Vic Crothalin
Digital gallery of
Trimmer Vic Crothalin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 21 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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