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Military service
Service number:
LT/JX 280018
Age:
20
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
H.M.S. Asbury
Death:
October 14, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10, Column 3.
Additional information
Son of William and Phoebe Warren, of Chapel Arm, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.
Digital gallery of Ordinary Seaman Francis Warren
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Picture of Francis Warren and his friend
Francis Warren(right) and his friend Kenneth Gosse -
Royal Canadian Legion in Blaketown
This is a photo of the Royal Canadian Legion in Blaketown where Francis Warren is honoured. -
S.S. Caribou
Ordinary Seaman Francis WARREN was a passenger aboard the Newfoundland ferry 'S.S. Caribou' on 14 October 1942, when-without warning-it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. "The Caribou served the North Sydney-Port Aux Basques ferry run from 1925 until 1942, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. It sank with a loss of 136 lives." (Newfoundland Provincial Archives) -
Lowestoft Naval Memorial
Lowestoft Naval Memorial-Suffolk, England. (Photograph from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Francis Warren
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Francis Warren
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Francis Warren
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Francis Warren
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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