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Ordinary Seaman Thomas McDonald

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Taber Park (Montréal, Québec) (175574)
Birth: January 1, 1926 Camelon, Scotland
Death: March 13, 1945 North Sea

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Son of A. McDonald and Mary Anne McDonald of Camelon, Falkirk, Stirlingthire, Scotland.


A Type XXVIIB submarine, Seehund Class, attacked the Taber Park on its voyage from the Tyne to London, England, and sank it off Aldeburgh in the North Sea, off Southwold, position 52°22'N/01°53'E, while it was part of the FS-1753 convoy from Methil to the Thames, England.

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Page 263 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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