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In memory of:

Master William Allen Darling

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Military service

Age: 50
Rank: Master
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Sarniadoc (Fort William, Ontario)
Birth: November 8, 1891 Collingwood, Ontario
Death: March 16, 1942 Caribbean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
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Son of John Wilber Darling and Sarah Mason, of Collingwood, Simcoe, Ontario. Husband of Margaret Cameron, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

At 2:30 am on 14 March 1942, the Sarniadoc was sailing unescorted to St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, when she was hit by a torpedo, behind the funnel, launched by U-161 200 miles (322 km) west of Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean Sea, and sank in less than 30 seconds with her crew of 21 men, in position 15°45'N/65°00'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 122 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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