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Chief Cook Edward James Weaver

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Military service

Age: 40
Rank: Chief Cook
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Ceramic (Southampton, England) (135474)
Birth: Walton-On-The-Hill, England
Death: December 4, 1942 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 27.
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Son of Edward James Weaver and Mary Hanna Peet from Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Husband of Elizabeth Anne Pritchard from Walton-On-The-Hill, Liverpool.

On 26 November 1942, the Ceramic sailed with convoy ON-149 from Liverpool, England, to Sydney, Australia, via Durban, South Africa. On 2 December, the ships were dispersed due to a submarine attack. Sailing alone, the Ceramic was hit by a torpedo at the stroke of midnight on 7 December 1942, in very rough seas, launched from U-515 and sank rapidly, position 40°30'N/40°20'W. Help arrived on the 9th and only one survivor was rescued by HMS Enterprise (D42). A total of 656 people lost their lives, including 264 crew members, 14 gunners, 244 soldiers, naval passengers, including nurses from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, and 133 paying passengers.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 267 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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