Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Walter James Petrie
In memory of:
4th Engineer Walter James Petrie
October 8, 1917
Celtic Sea
Military Service
25
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Richard de Larrinaga (Liverpool, England) (137524)
Additional Information
September 14, 1892
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Son of Charles P. Petrie and Elizabeth Mary Kelly of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Husband of Elizabeth M. Josephine Gillately, 65, Frances St., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. Father of Charles Alexander Petrie.
In October 1917, the Richard de Larrinaga was en route on ballast from Manchester, England, to Galveston, Texas, when on the 8th she was torpedoed by the U-57 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Ballycotton Island, Ireland, in the Celtic Sea. Her crew of 35 sailors, including the captain, perished.
Commemorated on Page 58 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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