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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Taber Park (Montreal, Québec) (175574)
Birth:
March 17, 1921
Borrowsounness, Scotland
Death:
March 13, 1945
North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 105.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Helen Thomson; Husband of Alice Thomson, of Bo'ness, West Lothian.
A Type XXVIIB submarine, Seehund Class, attacked the Taber Park on its voyage from the Tyne to London, England, and sank it off Aldeburgh in the North Sea, off Southwold, position 52°22'N/01°53'E, while it was part of the FS-1753 convoy from Methil to the Thames, England.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 267 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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