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Military service
Rank:
Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Korshamn (Stockholm, Sweden) (8343)
Death:
March 17, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
On 16 March 1941, U-99 randomly fired torpedoes into convoy HX-112 on its way to Liverpool, England, after leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 1st. It sank five ships, including the Korshamn, which lost 24 of its crew in position 61°09'N/12°20'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 147 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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