Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Jean Baptiste Falzon
In memory of:
Chief Cook Jean Baptiste Falzon
December 12, 1917
North Atlantic
Military Service
47
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Halifax (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (95099)
Additional Information
January 1, 1870
Malta
Son of Antonie Falzon and Carmela Rebow. Husband of Fortunata Bonello, of Algiers, Algeria. Father of Joseph Vincent and Carmel Jean Falzon. During the First World War, Antonie was a private in the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, British Army, regimental number 44894. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
This ship left St. Michael's, Azores, on 11 December 1917 for Bordeaux, France, when she sank off the Azores Islands around 12 December 1917 from an unknown cause. No German submarine claimed this victory.
Commemorated on Page 26 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
N/A
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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Memorial – His name as it is inscribed on the Tower Hill Memorial. The 480 fallen Canadians lost at sea, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
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Memorial – The tower Hill Memorial is located in London, England at Tower Hill and across from the Tower of London. This Memorial is dedicated to the 50,700 Commonwealth merchant seamen, fishing fleet workers and other on-board crew lost during the First World War. Included on this list are the 480 Canadians that gave their lives in the cause of the Great War. (J. Stephens)
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