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Brother of Private Leslie Edward Jones, regimental number 180077, 47th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He fought in France in the First World War and survived.
On 4 May 1943 the Lorient, a straggler from convoy ONS-5, was torpedoed and sunk by U-125 south of Cape Farewell, Greenland, position 54°04’N/44°18’W. The master, 40 crew members and five gunners were lost.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 162 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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