Military service
Burial/memorial information
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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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Tower Hill Memorial. The 480 fallen Canadians lost at sea, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
The tower Hill Memorial is located in London, England at Tower Hill and across from the Tower of London. This Memorial is dedicated to the 50,700 Commonwealth merchant seamen, fishing fleet workers and other on-board crew lost during the First World War. Included on this list are the 480 Canadians that gave their lives in the cause of the Great War. (J. Stephens)
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Warrant Officer Albert Hart Wilkie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Albert Hart Wilkie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 73 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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