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Age:
36
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
SS Empire Mermaid (London, England) (167603)
Birth:
January 1, 1904
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
August 2, 1940
Port Covington
Additional information
Son of William James Reid and Eleanor Benson from Springdale, Newfoundland.
He drowned accidentally at pier number 6 in Port Covington, on the Baltimore Peninsula in Maryland.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 265 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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