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Fireman and Trimmer Robert Doyle

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Fireman and Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Koranton (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) (142863)
Birth: St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: March 28, 1941

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of Robert Doyle and Mary Frances Sullivan, of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

On March 27, 1941, she was sailing with convoy SC-25 from Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to Hull, England, when at 1:50 p.m. 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.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 128 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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