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Captain Frederick Alfred Smith

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Military service

Age: 56
Rank: Captain
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Waneta (London, England) (129096)
Birth: September 22, 1861 Falmouth, Nova Scotia
Death: May 30, 1918 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Son of Alfred Smith and Margaret Armstrong from Falmouth, Nova Scotia. Husband of Rosaline Smith from Lockhardville, Nova Scotia. Father of Margaret Imrie, and Harold Albert Smith.

His son, Lance Corporal Avard Forsyth Smith, died on April 8, 1918 while serving with the The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Bn.

On 30 May 1918, the Wanata was en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Queenstown, Sierra Leone, when she was torpedoed by the U-101 42 nautical miles (48 miles/78 km) south-south-east of Kinsale Heard, Ireland. Eight sailors lost their lives.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 66 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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