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Military service
Age:
49
Rank:
Master
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
SV Port Jackson (Aberdeen, Scotland) (84362)
Birth:
December 13, 1867
Newport, Nova Scotia
Death:
April 28, 1917
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Son of Captain Robert James Marsters and Margaret Ann Musgrove of Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia. Husband of Jennie Adams of Deep Brook, Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Father of Neva Viola and George Wilford Marsters.
On 28 April 1917, this four-masted barque was en route from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Cork, Ireland, when she was torpedoed by U-67 180 miles (290 km) north-west of Fasnet, Ireland, and sank, position 51°00'N/14°02'W. The captain and 13 crew members lost their lives.
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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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Master George Rupert Marsters
Digital gallery of
Master George Rupert Marsters
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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