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Able Seaman Lewis McDonald

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Military service

Age: 23
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Saint Malo (Ottawa, Ontario) (142298)
Birth: October 10, 1917 Hunt’s Island
Death: June 22, 1941 Mauchine, Ayrshire, Scotland

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 1823.
Additional information
Son of Joseph George McDonald and Elizabeth Ann Strickland of Burgeo, Newfoundland.

300 miles (483 km) west of the Hebrides Islands, Scotland, on 12 October 1940, at 23:25, the Saint Malo was sailing with convoy HX-77 when she was torpedoed by U-101. She broke in two and sank, position 57°58'N/16°32'W. He probably died from injuries sustained during the attack.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 187 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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MAUCHLINE CEMETERY Ayrshire, United Kingdom

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