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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Nyland (Sweden)
Birth:
March 28, 1914
Scaterie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Death:
January 1, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of George Harris and Ellen Levina Trimm of Scaterie Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
The Nyland ran aground on the western reef of Torran Rocks, Iona, Scotland. She slipped and sank on 5 December 1940, taking the lives of six of the twenty crew members.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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