Canadian Virtual War Memorial
James Graham Farrow
In memory of:
Second Mate James Graham Farrow
March 19, 1916
North Atlantic
Military Service
56
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Port Dalhousie (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) (133544)
Additional Information
April 4, 1859
Argyle Shore, Prince Edward Island
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.
Commemorated on Page 26 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 3.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
Digital Collection
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Family Photo – Photo of James Graham Farrow – Photo submitted by On The War Memorial Trail research project -
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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) -
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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)
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