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Enlisted on November 11, 1914, with the 88th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 430818, he was transferred to the 48th Battalion and sent to England. He fought in France from March 9, 1916, and was twice wounded in action with the 29th Battalion, by shellfire on August 3, 1917, which left him deaf in the left ear, and in November at the Battle of Passchendale, in Belgium, in the left foot. Repatriated on December 14, 1918, he was demobilized on May 29, 1919.
On July 1, 1941, at 6:25 p.m., the Toronto City was torpedoed by U-108 500 miles (805 km) north of the Azores, in the North Atlantic, in position 47°03'N/30°00'W. She sank by the bow in 3 minutes. The 37 crew members, two gunners and three members of the meteorological service were never seen again.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 131 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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