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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Chief Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. HALIFAX (Halifax, Nouvelle-Écosse) (95099)
Birth:
Sunderland, Durham, England
Death:
December 12, 1917
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Son of Eduth J. and Elizabeth Billam. Husband of Mary Billam, Copnor, Portsmouth, England.
This ship left St. Michael's, Azores, on December 11, 1917, for Bordeaux, France, when she sank off the Azores Islands around December 12, 1917, from an unknown cause. No German submarine claimed this victory.
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Tower Hill Memorial. The 480 fallen Canadians lost at sea, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
The tower Hill Memorial is located in London, England at Tower Hill and across from the Tower of London. This Memorial is dedicated to the 50,700 Commonwealth merchant seamen, fishing fleet workers and other on-board crew lost during the First World War. Included on this list are the 480 Canadians that gave their lives in the cause of the Great War. (J. Stephens)
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Chief Engineer Henry Whinbrooke Billam
Digital gallery of
Chief Engineer Henry Whinbrooke Billam
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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