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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Maplecourt (Montreal, Québec) (141766)
Birth:
Middlesboro, England
Death:
February 6, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
His full name is John Edward Dewhurst.
Foster-son of Mr. L. A. Luddington, of Kingston, Nova Scotia.
A member of convoy SC-20, this ship was torpedoed at 1:53 p.m. on February 6, 1941, by U-107 and sank 120 miles (193 km) west of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°39'N/15°56'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 125 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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