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Military service
Rank:
Sailor
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division:
Schooner Ada D. Bishop (130501)
Death:
January 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
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Husband of Lillian Burgess, of Burin North, Newfoundland.
This 93-ton schooner sailed from Twillingate, Newfoundland, for Gibraltar and was reported missing on January 10, 1918, with its six crew members. No German submarine has claimed to have sunk this vessel.
Digital gallery of Sailor Rufus Burgess
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
Digital gallery of
Sailor Rufus Burgess
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 16 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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