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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Second Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Bonnington Court (London, England) (161319)
Birth:
November 20, 1918
Battleford, Saskatchewan
Death:
January 19, 1941
Tyne River, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of Richard Lindemere and Gladys Bertha Breffit of New Westminster, British Columbia.
On 19 January 1941, the Bonnington Court was sailing in ballast between Ipswich and Harwick on the Tyne, England, when she was attacked, bombed and sunk in a Luftwaffe raid. Two sailors lost their lives.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 176 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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