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Military service
Service number:
91990
Age:
36
Rank:
Baker
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Naval Auxiliary Personnel
Division:
H.M.S. Karanja (London, England) (162554)
Birth:
May 6, 1906
Portseoy, Banffshire, Scotland
Death:
November 12, 1942
Mediterranean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 15, Column 1.
Additional information
Son of John Cooper and Margaret Stephen Murray, of Portsoy, Banffshire, Scotland. Husband of Ethel William, of Westmount, Montréal, Québec.
On 12 November 1942, during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, the Karanja was attacked, bombed and sunk at 8.30 am by a German aircraft off Bougie, Algeria. Of its crew, 44 sailors lost their lives. The survivors were rescued by the SS Strathnaver.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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