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In memory of:

Third Mate Christopher Blyth Johnstone

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Military service

Age: 24
Rank: Third Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Alnmoor (London, England) (146567)
Birth: January 1, 1917 North Shields, England
Death: February 15, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 18.
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Son of Alfred Pilens Johnstone and Janet Ford Blyth of North Shields, Northumberland, England. In the First World War, Alfred served with the Tyne Electrical Engineers of the British Army Territorial Force, regimental number 1627.

On 15 February 1941, the Alnmoor was part of convoy SC-21, which sailed from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia, finishing in Glasgow, Scotland. Pulling astern, she was torpedoed by the Italian submarine Michelle Bianchi 400 nautical miles (460 miles/741 km) south-west of Rockall, Inverness-shire, England, and sunk, position 55°40'N/25°15'W. The entire crew of 42 or 55 sailors, depending on the source, lost their lives.

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Page 162 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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