Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Charles Ernest Brown
In memory of:
Master Charles Ernest Brown
September 15, 1940
Military Service
41
Merchant Navy
Merchant Navy
S.S. Kenordoc (Fort William, Ontario) (147782)
Additional Information
Son ofCharles William Brown and Isabella Dodsworth, of Sunderland, Durham England. Husband of Ada Casper.
She was on route from Quebec City, Quebec, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Bristol, England, with convoy SC-3 when on September 15, 1940, at 12:16 p.m., she was torpedoed by U-99 about 44 miles (71 km) west-northwest of Rockall, west of Scotland, in the North Atlantic, position 57°42'N/15°02'W. Refusing to sink, the wreck had to be scuttled by HMS Amazon (D39) of the Royal Navy. The attack caused the death of the captain and six crew members. The thirteen survivors were rescued by the Amazon and the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS St-Laurent (H83), which landed them in Greenock, Scotland.
Commemorated on Page 102 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
Panel 60.
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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