4th Engineer Henry George Beisiegel

Son of Henri Morin Beisiegel and Lilian Rose Smith Cook, of Montreal, Quebec. At the wedding, the groom was registered as Henri Alphonse Beisiegel. During the First World War, Henri Morin enlisted on January 31, 1916, with the 148th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Montreal, service number 841299. Suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, he was repatriated from England on April 21, 1917 without ever having participated in combat.

After leaving New York harbour on February 23, 1943, with convoy SC-121 bound for England, on March 7, 1943, the Empire Impala was torpedoed by U-581, while dragging from the stern, and sank to the north-west of the British Isles taking her captain, 46 crew members and six gunners to the bottom, position 57°00'N/36°00'W.