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Fireman and Trimmer John Reck

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Military service

Age: 36
Rank: Fireman and Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Taber Park (Montreal, Québec) (175574)
Birth: January 1, 1909 Liverpool, England
Death: March 13, 1945 North Sea

Burial/memorial information

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 105.
Additional information
Son of John and Teresa Reck. Husband of Elizabeth Reck from Bootle, Lancashire, England.

A Type XXVIIB submarine, Seehund Class, attacked the Taber Park on its voyage from the Tyne to London, England, and sank it off Aldeburgh in the North Sea, off Southwold, position 52°22'N/01°53'E, while it was part of the FS-1753 convoy from Methil to the Thames, England.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 265 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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Samuel Pollock
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Samuel Stewart
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Sidney Dixon
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Sidney Hedley Irving
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Sidney Henry Newport
Assistant Steward
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Sidney Higgins Peters
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Spero Argyros
Able Seaman
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Stanford Morris
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Stanley Mack
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Stanley Scott
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Stephen John Hopkins
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Stratis Costinas
Fireman and Trimmer
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Thomas Ambrose Smith
Chief Steward
Canadian Merchant Navy
Thomas Ashton
Trimmer
Canadian Merchant Navy
Thomas Atkinson
Steward
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Thomas Corrigan
Able Seaman
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Thomas Dempsey Wallace
Assistant Steward
Canadian Merchant Navy

 

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