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Military service
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division:
SV Dictator, sailing schooner (Newfoundland)
Birth:
Hermitage, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
September 6, 1918
Braunschweig, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. F. 8.
Additional information
Son of John Parsons of Hermitage, Newfoundland.
On 28 June 1918, this sailing ship was boarded and sunk by the U-151 in the North Atlantic. Her crew was taken prisoner of war and transported in Germany where they were interned until the end of the war.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 276 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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