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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Chief Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Moresby (Shanghai, China) (107022)
Birth:
June 23, 1878
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
November 28, 1916
Mediterranean Sea
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Son of William Lawton Prince and Susan Mary Bostwick of Saint John, New Brunswick. Half-brother of Sergeant Harold Wilmot Prince, regimental number 37184, Canadian Field Artillery. He fought in France in the First World War and survived.
On 28 November 1916, 120 nautical miles (138 miles/220 km) north-northwest of Alexandria, Egypt, the Moresby was torpedoed by U-39 and sank in 12 minutes with 33 crew members, position 32°36'N/28°38'E. There were 12 survivors, including the captain.
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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) -
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)
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Chief Engineer Albert Lawton Prince
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Chief Engineer Albert Lawton Prince
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Commemorated on:
Page 60 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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