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Warrant Officer Albert Hart Wilkie

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Military service

Age: 22
Rank: Warrant Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. HALIFAX (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (95099)
Birth: October 23, 1895 Toronto, Ontario
Death: December 12, 1917 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of James Wilkie and Mary Alice Dalrymple of 323 Shaw Street, Toronto, Ontario. James served as a private in the 8th Regiment of the Stadacona Royal Rifles in 1870.

Brother of Lance-Sergeant James Longmire Wilkie, regimental number 9855, 3rd Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force. He fought in France where he was taken prisoner of war at St-Julien on 24 April 1915. Detained at Soltau, Germany, then at Hamelm, Germany, on 22 June 1917, he was subsequently interned in the Netherlands on 7 October 1918. Released, brought back to England on 18 November 1918, demobilised in Toronto on 26 February 1919.

This ship left St. Michael's, Azores, on 11 December 1917 for Bordeaux, France, when she sank off the Azores Islands around 12 December 1917 from an unknown cause. No German submarine claimed this victory.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 73 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

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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