Name: George Leo McLean Rank: Ordinary Seaman Service: SS Henri Mory (Swansea, Wales) Canadian Merchant Navy Date of Birth: June 2, 1917 Place of Birth: New Waterford, Nova Scotia Date of Death: April 26, 1941 Age: 23 Memorial: Halifax Memorial Reference: Panel 19. Commemorated on Page 189 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 15, September 12, and November 18 George Leo McLean was the son of John J. McLean and Mary (McNeil) McLean of New Waterford, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. His was the brother of John James McLean (1916-1943), who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and was lost during air operations on August 31, 1943 over Germany, and Alexander Joseph McLean (b. 1914). George Leo McLean was serving as an Ordinary Seaman on the SS Henri Mory when the ship was was hit on the starboard side in the after end of the engine room by one torpedo from U-110 while steaming on a non-evasive course at 4 knots in fine and clear weather about 330 miles west-northwest of Blasket Islands, Ireland. The Henri Mory sank in less than four minutes and only a few survivors managed to escape the suction of the sinking ship. The master, 25 crew members and two gunners were lost. There were four survivors. The ship had been dispersed from convoy SL-68 on March 21, 1917, went to Bermuda and then proceeded independently to the UK because the vessel was too slow to join a transatlantic convoy. George Leo McLean is listed on the Halifax Memorial, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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