Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Emrys Herbert Humphreys
In memory of:
Master Emrys Herbert Humphreys
February 6, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
55
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Maplecourt (Montréal, Québec) (141766)
Additional Information
March 7, 1885
Manchester, England
Son of Benjamin Humphreys and Mary E. Humphreys of Manchester, England. Husband of Bettie Rose Keen of Toronto, Ontario. Father of Patricia Humphreys.
On 15 February 1915, he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve and on 16 February 1917, Lieutenant. He served on board HMS Odin, a sloop of the Espiègle class that patrolled the East Indies, the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia from 1914 to 1920 during the First World War.
A member of convoy SC-20, this ship was torpedoed at 13:53 on 6 February 1941 by U-107 and sank 120 miles (193 km) west of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°39'N/15°56'W.
Commemorated on Page 158 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 17.
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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1914-1915 Star (back) – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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1914-1915 Star (front) – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Sun. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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