Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Cecil Walter Hubley
In memory of:
Able Seaman Cecil Walter Hubley
February 17, 1943
Port Elizabeth, Indian Ocean
Military Service
50
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Llanashe (London, England) (165338)
Additional Information
November 4, 1892
Spry Bay, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Son of William Henry Hubley and Jane Olivia Hamilton of Spry Bay, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Brother of Privates Thomas Campbell Hubley, service number 3182105, and Arthur Bertram Hubley, service number 3185210, both from the Nova Scotia Regiment. They never fought or crossed the Atlantic.
On 17 February 1943, the LLanashe was en route to South Africa when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-182 south of Cape Saint Francis and off Port Elizabeth in the Indian Ocean, in position 34°00'S/28°30'W. The captain, 27 crew members and 5 gunners lost their lives. The chief engineer, 7 sailors and one gunner were rescued after eleven days adrift by the Dutch merchant ship Tarakan, which transferred them to the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Carthage (F99) and the British destroyer HMS Racehorse (H11). They were disembarked in Cape Town, South Africa, on 4 March.
Commemorated on Page 157 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 23.
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.
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