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Master Abram George Thornhill

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Military service

Age: 51
Rank: Master
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SV Mildred Pauline, a three-masted schooner (Sydney, Nova Scotia) (142073)
Birth: October 13, 1890 Grand Bank, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: May 1, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 22.
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Son of Thomas Dowden Thornhill and Caroline Pierce from Fortune, Newfoundland. Husband of Rose Ann Thornhill from Fortune. Father of Mildrec, George Grandy, who perished with his father, Joyce Lilian, Olive Rose, Caroline and a fifth unidentified child.

On 23 April 1942, the Mildred Pauline left Barbados for St. John's, Newfoundland. At 1:33 am on 8 May, without escort, she was boarded and sunk after 102 shells fired from the deck gun of U-136 425 miles (684 km) south-east of Nova Scotia, position 39°45'N/55°26'W. All seven crew members lost their lives.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 240 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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