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Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Chief Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Ashmun J. Clough (London, England) (169602)
Birth:
April 2, 1912
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 26, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
On August 26, 1944, with convoy EBC-82, she was to deliver 1,200 tons of military supplies to Utah Beach, Normandy, France, when she was torpedoed at 8:30 a.m. and sunk by U-989 north of Cherbourg, Brittany, France, position 50°10'N/01°41'W. Her captain, eleven crew members and four gunners lost their lives. The fifteen surviving sailors were recovered by the British speedboat HMS ML-450 which transferred them to the British corvette HMS Azalea (K25). They were disembarked in Cherbourg.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 101 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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