Military service
Burial/memorial information
He enlisted on 6 May 1915 with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles in Montreal, Quebec, regimental number 5595, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was discharged for medical reasons on 1 June 1915 at Camp Valcartier, Quebec.
Requisitioned by the British Admiralty, SS Royal Edward became HMT Royal Edward and was converted into a troop transport. While en route to Gallipoli, Turkey, with about 1,335 British troops, she was torpedoed by UB-14 6 miles (9.5 km) west of the Aegean island of Kandeloussa and sank with 866 men, position 36°31'N/25°51'E.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 21 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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