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Greaser Charles Schofield

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Military service

Age: 27
Rank: Greaser
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Napier Star (London, England) (149781)
Birth: March 6, 1913 London, England
Death: December 18, 1940 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 72.
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Son of Henry Schofield and Isabel Goodwin from United Kingdom. Husband of Ada Agnes Freeman from South Ockenden, Essex, England.

On 18 December 1940, the Napier Star sailed from Liverpool, England, to Panama, then New Zealand, with 17 passengers. At 8:20 pm, she was sailing unescorted when she was hit by one of the two torpedoes launched from U-100 321 miles (517 km) off Rockall, in the North Atlantic. She sank by the stern after receiving the coup de grâce at 8:49 pm, position 58°58'N/23°13'W. The captain, 58 crew members and 12 passengers lost their lives. Nine sailors, one gunner and four passengers were rescued by the SS Vaalaren, which landed them in Liverpool on 23 December.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 266 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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