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In memory of:

Second Mate James Graham Farrow

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Military service

Age: 56
Rank: Second Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. PORT DALHOUSIE (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) (133544)
Birth: April 4, 1859 Argyle Shore, Prince Edward Island
Death: March 19, 1916 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 3.
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Son of Henry Farrow and Mary Jane Gouldrup, of Prince Edward Island. Husband of Mary Jane Howatt of Portland, Maine. Father of Welton Price, Harold Jacob, Ralph Warren and Marian Elizabeth Farrow. Harold Jacob enlisted in the First World War on 28 July 1917, service number 1031137, and fought in France with the 42nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was gassed on 14 September 1918 and survived the war.

On 19 March 1916, the Port Dalhousie was bound for Nantes, France, when she was torpedoed and sunk by UB-10 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the lightship Kentish Knock in the North Atlantic. Of the crew, seven were rescued while the remaining 19 crew members lost their lives.

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Page 26 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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