Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Robert Stevens
In memory of:
Wheelman Robert Stevens
February 22, 1942
North Atlantic
Military Service
64
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. George L Torian (St. Catharines, Ontario) (149070)
Additional Information
September 30, 1877
Kingston, Ontario
His full name is Robert Perry Stevens.
Son of Willard (aka William) Stevens and Mary Amelia Jolliffe from Kinston, Ontario. Husband of Florence Kidd from Longueuil, Québec. Father of Florence Jayne, Hazel, Willard Alfred and Sylvia Stevens.
During the First World War, Robert enlisted on 22 May 1916 in Kingston, Ontario, with the 146th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 835951. On 16 April 1917, he was medically discharged without ever having crossed the Atlantic.
This ship was en route from Paramaribo, Suriname, to Trinidad, when on 22 February 1942, at 22:20, she sailed unescorted and was torpedoed by U-129 120 miles (193 km) south-southeast of Trinidad, off the coast of Guyana, position 09°13'N/59°04'W.
Commemorated on Page 234 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 22.
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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Newspaper clipping – From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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