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Military service
Service number:
D/JX 202009
Age:
28
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
H.M.S. Asbury (lost in S.S. Caribou)
Death:
October 14, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 72, Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Arthur and Louisa White, of Cottel Island, Newfoundland, Canada.
Digital gallery of Ordinary Seaman Raymond George White
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Group Photo
Left to Right: Back Row: Ches Sexton, Ross Farnell, Ches Warford, Raymond F. Pearcey, Ron Kelly Second Row: Jack Coles, Joe Keats, Ben Moores, CPO Bradley, Geo Porter, Geo Pollett, Greg Hynes Front Row: Raymond George White , Doug Pike, Geo Layden, Stan Wheeler -
S.S. Caribou
Ordinary Seaman Raymond George WHITE was a passenger aboard the Newfoundland ferry 'S.S. Caribou' on 14 October 1942, when-without warning-it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. "The Caribou served the North Sydney-Port Aux Basques ferry run from 1925 until 1942, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. It sank with a loss of 136 lives." (Newfoundland Provincial Archives) -
Plymouth Naval Memorail
Plymouth Naval Memorial--Devon, England. (Photograph from the Commonwealth War Graves Commmission) -
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Raymond George White
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Raymond George White
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Raymond George White
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Raymond George White
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 204 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Devon, United Kingdom
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