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Assistant Cook Thomas Maberley

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Military service

Age: 26
Rank: Assistant Cook
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: RMS Hesperian (Glasgow, Scotland) (124266)
Birth: December 6, 1888 Edinburgh, Scotland
Death: September 4, 1915 North Atlantic

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Son of Edwin George Maberley and Jeanie Allan Munn of Grovesend, Glamorganshire, Wales. Edwin George served with the 26th Foot (Scottish Rifles) of the Scottish Militia, regimental number 3297, from 12 March 1907.

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.

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Page 45 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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