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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Boatswain
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Philipp M (London, England) (147908)
Birth:
April 5, 1905
Berg, Whalsay, Shetlant Islands
Death:
February 24, 1944
North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 81.
Additional information
Son of Walter Leask and Elizabeth Ann Robertson. Husband of Elizabeth Isabella Hughson of South Shields, Durham, England. During the First World War, Leading Seaman Walter, regimental number 2360c, served on HMS Virginian and died on 11 April 1917 of wounds sustained on the 8th at the dock in Liverpool, England, while coaling. Husband of Elizabeth Isabella Hughson of South Shields, Durham, England.
While member of the convoy FS 1371, the Philipp M. was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk by a Kriegsmarine Schnellboot with a loss of seven of her 25 crew, in position 52°45?N 2°2?E.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 172 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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