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Military service
Age:
44
Rank:
Trimmer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
RMS. Missanabie (London, England) (136705)
Birth:
January 5, 1874
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Death:
September 9, 1918
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Son of Charles Burns and Ellen Bradley, of Northern Ireland.
She was on route from Liverpool, England, to Quebec City and Montreal, Quebec, when on September 9, 1918 she was torpedoed by UB-87 52 miles (84 km) off Daunt's Rock, Cork, Ireland. She sank with 45 of her crew, position 58°11'N/07°25'W.
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Trimmer James Burns
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Trimmer James Burns
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Commemorated on:
Page 16 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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