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Military service
Age:
37
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. PORT DALHOUSIE (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) (133544)
Birth:
January 1, 1879
Middlesbrough, England
Death:
March 19, 1916
North Atlantic
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Son of Frederick Edwin Wilson and Louisa Dobson of 26 High Spencer Street, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.
On 19 March 1916, the Port Dalhousie was bound for Nantes, France, when she was torpedoed and sunk by UB-10 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the lightship Kentish Knock in the North Atlantic. Of the crew, seven were rescued while the remaining 19 crew members lost their lives.
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Commemorated on:
Page 74 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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