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Chief Officer George Alfred Kay

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Military service

Age: 38
Rank: Chief Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SV Minas Queen, a three-masted schooner (St. John’s, Newfoundland) (133897)
Birth: April 17, 1879 Petitcodiac, New Brunswick
Death: August 26, 1917 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of James Bunyan Kay and Augusta Emiline Gordon of Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick. Husband of Ruby Rushton and Mary MacAlony, both from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Father of Jessie Viola, Stillborn Male and Pearl R. Kay, from his first marriage, Frances Gertrude and Chipman Alfred Kay, from his second marriage.

On 26 August 1917, the Minas Queen was en route from Tonnay, France, to New York when she was boarded and sunk by gunfire from U-93 350 miles (563 km) north-west of Cap Finistère, France, position 46°23'N/10°24'W. The attack caused the death of her captain and 5 sailors.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 39 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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