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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Highbury (London, England) (135141)
Birth:
March 25, 1894
Montreal, Québec
Death:
May 31, 1917
Celtic Sea
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Son of George Cooper Murray and Annie Lee of Montréal, Québec.
On 10 June 1917, the Highbury was torpedoed and sunk by U-66 100 miles (161 km) west-south-west of Bishop Rock, a lighthouse located west of the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea, position 48°25'N/10°28'W. This attack caused the death of 40 people.
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Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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