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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Third Mate
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Lady Hawkins (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (155047)
Birth:
Port au Bras, Burin, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
January 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of George Samuel Bennett and Emily Jane Cheeseman, of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
Lady Hawkins was torpedoed on January 19, 1942, at 7:43 a.m. by U-66 and sank east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, position 35°N/72°30'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 93 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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