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George Edward May
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May, George Edward
A/2012
Petty Officer Stoker
HMCS Morden
Royal Canadian Naval Reserve
July 31, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
June 26, 1940
24
Toronto, Ontario
Mildland, Ontario
Sailor
Baptist
Married (Single at Enlistment)
Sarah C. May (Wife) Halifax, NS
October 14, 1942
26
Halifax Memorial
Commemorated on Page 95 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on March 1
George May was the son of Sgt. G. H. May and Florence Ada May, of Midland, Ontario and
husband of Sarah Catherine May, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Petty Officer Stoker George Edward MAY was a passenger aboard the Newfoundland ferry SS
Caribou on 14 October 1942, when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. The SS Caribou
served the North Sydney to Port Aux Basques ferry run from 1925 until 1942, when it was
torpedoed by a German submarine. The ship sank with a loss of 136 lives.
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