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Boatswain Edgbert Howell

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Military service

Age: 39
Rank: Boatswain
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Portugal (Antwerp, Belgium) (144664)
Birth: October 18, 1901 Newtown, Bonavista Bay
Death: January 20, 1941 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 84.
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Son of Tobias Howell and Sarah Jane Cross of Catalina, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland.

On 8 January 1941, Portugal II left Gibraltar for Methyl, England. On the 11th, she transmitted her last radio message. On the 20th, she was sunk with deck guns by the Italian submarine Lorenzo Marcello. The weather was so bad that 4 Italian sailors fell overboard, while one drowned. The Portutal II lost 9 crew members.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 275 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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