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Military service
Age:
35
Rank:
Quartermaster
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. City of Bedford (Liverpool, England) (147284)
Birth:
January 1, 1905
Lancashire, England
Death:
December 30, 1940
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
On 30 December in fog 280 miles south of Iceland HX 97 ran into Convoy OB 265 coming in the opposite direction. City of Bedford collided with the Elder Dempster Lines cargo ship Bodnant, causing both ships to sink. All of Bodnant's crew survived, but 48 of City of Bedford's crew were killed.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 248 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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