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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Cook
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Rio Dorado (London, England) (147726)
Birth:
January 1, 1903
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
March 16, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Husband of Clara Lloyd.
The Rio Dorado was en route in convoy from the Tyne, England, to Baltimore, Pennsylvania, USA, when it was attacked and sunk by the German battleship Gneisenau east of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic. All 39 crew members lost their lives.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 176 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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