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In memory of:

Trimmer Daniel Frank Bennett Tedham

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Military service

Age: 40
Rank: Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Lancastrian Prince (London, England) (167486)
Birth: May 1, 1902 Catehill, West Asfhford, Kent, England
Death: April 11, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Daniel James Bennett-Tedham and Alice Rebecca Dunster Pellegrin. Husband of Eva Dorren Parker. Father of Iris, Sylvia Bennett-Tedham and of a third child non identified.

His family name is Bennett-Tedham.

On April 11, 1943, the Lancastrian Prince was sailing with convoy ON-176 when at 1:30 a.m. the U-404 fired two torpedoes. The armed freighter was hit and sank with the loss of the captain, 37 crew members and seven gunners, position 50°18'N/42°48'W. There were no survivors.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 238 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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