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Assistant Steward Harry Bloor

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Military service

Age: 17
Rank: Assistant Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Kenbane Head (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (142492)
Birth: December 24, 1922 Toronto, Ontario
Death: November 5, 1940

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Joseph Stanley Bloor and Mabel Edith Mutton, of Toronto, Ontario.

On November 5, 1940, the Kenbane Head was part of convoy HX-84 which was attacked with guns by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer some 755 nautical miles (869 miles/1,398 km) south-southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland. Despite the smoke screen provided by the sole escort, HMS Jervis Bay, the merchant ship was sunk. It took the lives of 23 sailors.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 97 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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