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Joseph Charles Édouard Racine

In memory of:

Cook Joseph Charles Édouard Racine

December 20, 1917
Alboran Sea

Military Service


Age:

25

Force:

Merchant Navy

Unit:

Canadian Merchant Navy

Division:

S.S. Waverley (West Hartlepool, England) (112442)

Additional Information


Born:

January 26, 1892
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

Son of Isaïe Racine and Victorine Racine from Grand Isle, Vermont.

On 20 December 1917, the Waverley was en route from Cardiff, Wales, to Port Said, Egypt, when she was torpedoed by U-35 33 miles (53 km) north-east of Cape Ivi, Algeria, in the Alboran Sea, and sunk with 22 crew members, position 36°37'N/00°33'E.

Commemorated on Page 61 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

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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  • Inscription– 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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