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Son of William Billard and Catherine Parthena Spencer. Husband of Emily Blanche Thomas, of Rose Blanche, Newfoundland. Father of Simeon Matthew Billard.
This two-masted, wooden-hulled schooner left St-Pierre-Miquelon for Catalina, New Zealand, on December 10, 1917, and was reported missing. She and the six sailors on board were never heard from again. The date of death for these men, all from Burgeo, Newfoundland, was the date of her departure.
Digital gallery of Seaman Simeon Billard
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
Digital gallery of
Seaman Simeon Billard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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