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Able Seaman Kenneth Driscoll

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Military service

Age: 21
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Victolite (Victoria, British Columbia) (160197)
Birth: East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia
Death: February 11, 1942 Caribbean Sea

Burial/memorial information

HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 21.
Additional information
His full name is Kenneth Damos Driscoll. Son of George Damos Driscoll and Hazel Auralee McKenzie (1988 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother) of East Unlacke, Halifax, Nova Scotia. George enlisted on 7 June 1918 in the Nova Scotia Regiment, regimental number 3188182. He was demobilized on 13 January 1919 in Halifax without ever having crossed the Atlantic or taken part in any combat. Hazel was chosen Silver Cross Mother in 1988 for the loss of his son Kenneth.

According to the logbook of the submarine U-564, she was torpedoed on 11 February 1942 and sank at about 06 :05 a.m. 260 nautical miles (299 miles/480 km) north-north-west of Bermuda after being hit by two torpedoes, resisting an explosive scuttling charge and 98 shots from a deck gun, position 36°12'N/67°14'W. There were no survivors out of a crew of 47 members.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 128 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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