Mess Room Steward Jacob George Hodder

Son of Jeremiah Murray Hodder and Ellen Hillier of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Brother of Sapper Murray Albert Hodder, regimental number F-66576, 10th Canadian Field Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers Corps, who died of wounds in Holland on 6 May 1945, after fighting in Italy and France.<.P>

On 3 December 1944, at 1000 hours, the Cornwallis had just left New York harbour, USA, and was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-1230 10 miles (16 km) off the US coast in the Gulf of Maine, position 43°59'N/68°20'W. The attack took the lives of the captain, 35 sailors and seven gunners.