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Cook Gardiner

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Military service

Rank: Cook
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Torondoc (Fort William, Ontario) (149431)
Death: May 20, 1942 Caribbean Sea

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On 21 May 1942, at 7:53 am, the Torondoc was sailing without escort when she was hit by a torpedo launched from U-69. She quickly sank 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Martinique, position 14°45'N/62°15'W. The captain and his 21 crew members, in lifeboats, were never seen again after they were abandoned by the Germans who had surfaced to interrogate them.

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Page 140 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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