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Military service
Age:
18
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Hoegh Silverdawn (Oslo, Norway)
Birth:
October 23, 1924
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 15, 1943
Indian Ocean
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of John Nairn Forbes Lindsay and Mary Johnstone of Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the First World War, John served in the Royal Navy, service number K-26369, from 14 April 1915 to 23 August 1919 and saw action.
The Norwegian motor vessel Hoegh Silverdawn, en route from Fremantle, Australia, to Basra, Iraq, with a military cargo, was bombed and torpedhawkinsoed by the German privateer Michel and sunk south-east of the Cocos Islands, Keeling, in the Indian Ocean, position 25°40’S/92°00’E.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 176 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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