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Able Seaman Joseph Jackman

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Military service

Age: 40
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Koranton (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) (142863)
Birth: January 1, 1901 St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: March 28, 1941 North Atlantic

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HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 19.
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Son of Michael Peter Jackman and Mary Ann Dohey of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Husband of Phomenia Grace. Father of three children, including Patrick and Dennis Frances Jackman.

On 27 March 1941, she was sailing with convoy SC-25 from Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to Hull, England, when at 1:50 pm the Koranton was torpedoed by U-98 300 miles (483 km) south of Reykjavik, Iceland, position 58°51'N/22°36'W. The captain, 33 crew members and two gunners lost their lives.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 160 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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