Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Norman Graham
In memory of:
Assistant Cook Norman Graham
September 4, 1915
North Atlantic
Military Service
19
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
RMS Hesperian (Glasgow, Scotland) (124266)
Additional Information
January 1, 1896
West Derby, Lancashire, England
His full name is Joseph Norman Graham.
Son of Benjamin Wray Graham and Elizabeth Jane Arrowsmith of Waterloo, Lancashire, England. Brother of Private Benjamin Wray Graham of the Royal Tank Corps, regimental number 307703 replaced by 64872, killed in action on 8 October 1918 in France.
On 4 September 1915, the Hesperian was en route from Liverpool, England, to Montreal, Quebec, when it was torpedoed at 8:30 a.m. by the U-20 off the coast of Ireland, 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Fastnet Rock, southeast of Ireland in the North Atlantic. The attack resulted in the death of 32 people, as the ship was carrying 653 passengers. Remaining afloat, she was towed 35 miles (56 km) before sinking 130 miles (209 km) off Queenstown, England, on 6 September. This U-20 will sink the Lusitania.
Commemorated on Page 31 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
N/A
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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