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Military service
Age:
37
Rank:
2nd Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
SS Geraldine Mary (St. John's, Newfoundland) (151629)
Birth:
Saltcoats, Scotland
Death:
August 4, 1940
Off Bloody Foreland
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 52
Additional information
She was on route from Botwood, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Manchester, England, with convoy HX-60 when on August 4, 1940, at 9:22 a.m., she was torpedoed by U-62 and sank two hours later 270 miles (435 km) west-northwest of Bloody Foreland, Northern Ireland, position 56°46'N/15°48'W. The attack resulted in the death of one passenger and two crew members. There were 27 survivors.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 268 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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