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Military service
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Dunelm (Montréal, Québec) (123950)
Death:
October 17, 1915
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 3.
Additional information
This ship, designed for the Great Lakes, was requisitioned and used for purposes other than its construction allowed. On her second Atlantic crossing, she left the port of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, on 15 October 1915 without radio equipment. On the 17th she was seen passing Cape Race, Newfoundland. She was officially reported missing on 12 January 1916 with her crew of twenty sailors. No German submarine claimed to have sunk her.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 75 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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