Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John William Freeman
In memory of:
Donkeyman and Greaser John William Freeman
March 13, 1945
North Sea
Military Service
32
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Taber Park (Montréal, Québec) (175574)
Additional Information
January 1, 1913
Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Son of George Frederick Freeman and Anne Clarke Collishaw, of Hull, Yorkshire, England.
A Type XXVIIB submarine, Seehund Class, attacked the Taber Park on its voyage from the Tyne to London, England, and sank it off Aldeburgh in the North Sea, off Southwold, position 52°22'N/01°53'E, while it was part of the FS-1753 convoy from Methil to the Thames, England.
Commemorated on Page 259 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
Panel 10.
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
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