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Wheelman Gordon Penny Hilliard

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Military service

Age: 40
Rank: Wheelman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. George L. Torian (St. Catharines, Ontario) (149070)
Birth: June 20, 1901 Owen Sound, Ontario
Death: February 22, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 21.
Additional information
Son of William Ewart Hilliard and Josephine Anny Penny of Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario.

This ship was en route from Paramaribo, Suriname, to Trinidad, when on 22 February 1942, at 22:20, she sailed unescorted and was torpedoed by U-129 120 miles (193 km) south-southeast of Trinidad, off the coast of Guyana, position 09°13'N/59°04'W.

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Page 155 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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