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Oiler William Dalzell Gaythwaite

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Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Oiler
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Cornwallis (Vancouver, British Columbia) (150448)
Birth: October 1, 1914 Cleater, Cumberland, England
Death: December 3, 1944 Gulf of Maine

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Miles Gaythwaite and Rose Mary McKeown, of Cleater, Cumberland, England.

On 3 December 1944, at 1000 hours, the Cornwallis had just left New York harbour, USA, and was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-1230 10 miles (16 km) off the US coast in the Gulf of Maine, position 43°59'N/68°20'W. The attack took the lives of the captain, 35 sailors and seven gunners.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 141 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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