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In memory of:

Chief Engineer John Lewis

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Military service

Age: 58
Rank: Chief Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Weston Head (Nassau, Bahamas) (159979)
Death: May 28, 1942 East of, Cuba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
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Husband of Mrs. John Lewis, of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham, England.

On 29 May 1942, at 02:17 am, the Western Head was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-107 50 miles (70 km) east of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sank in Windward Passage, position 19°57'N/74°18'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 175 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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