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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Chief Radio Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Stureholm (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Birth:
August 3, 1916
Petitcodiac, New Brunswick
Death:
December 11, 1940
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of James Ervin McAllister and Bessie Louise Steeves of Petitcodiac, Westmorland, New Brunswick.
On 29 November 1940, Stureholm left Halifax harbour, Nova Scotia, with convoy HX-92, and headed for Hull, England. On 12 December, at 1:56 am, she was torpedoed by U-96 north of Ireland, position 57°50'N/08°40'W. The ship sank in 11 minutes and none of the 32 crew members survived.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 185 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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