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Fireman Michael Ganner

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Military service

Age: 26
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Carlier (Antwerp, Belgium)
Birth: January 1, 1917 Motherwell, Scotland
Death: November 11, 1943 Mediterranean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
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Son of Michael Ganner and Ellen Curie, of Scotland.

On 11 November 1943, at 6.30pm, around 40 miles (64 km) from Oran in Algeria, the Carlier II was bombed and sunk by a German aircraft while sailing with convoy KMS-31. Of the 69 crew members and 22 military passengers, 48 sailors, including the captain, and 19 passengers lost their lives. The survivors were rescued by the American destroyer USS Trippe (DD-403) and landed at Oran.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 140 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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