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Fireman Alexander Bodner

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Military service

Age: 36
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS ESSO SARNAC (Middlesbrough, England) (164847)
Birth: Hamilton, Ontario
Death: September 24, 1947

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On September 23, 1947, an Esso Saranac boiler exploded, position 36°20'N/71°25'W, while passing from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Hull, England. Two crew members lost their lives due to severe scalds.

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Page 257 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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