Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Arthur Townsend Gass
In memory of:
Master Arthur Townsend Gass
September 7, 1940
Military Service
48
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Jose de Larrinaga (Liverpool)
Additional Information
His real name is Thomas (aka Arthur) Townsend Gass.
Son of Thomas Byron Gass and Jennie Holt Whitley, of Saint John, New Brunswick. Husband of Marie Archer Baguley, of Liverpool, England.
On 7 September 1940, after moving away from the SC-2 convoy, she was torpedoed at 5.15 am by U-47 north-west of Rockall, between Iceland and Ireland. She sank in less than 11 minutes with her captain, 38 crew and gunner in position 58°30'N/16°10'W.
Commemorated on Page 140 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
R.N.R. Panel 59.
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
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