Name: Theodore Ruford Underwood Rank: Ordinary Seaman Service: SS Algonquin Park, Canadian Merchant Navy Date of Birth: November 28, 1926 Place of Birth: Three Mile Plains, Hants County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Three Mile Plains, Hants County, Nova Scotia Marital Status: Single Religion: Pentecostal Date of Death: April 23, 1945 Age: 18 Cemetery: Maplewood Cemetery, Windsor, Hants Co., Nova Scotia Commemorated on Page 272 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 29, October 26, and December 2 Theodore Ruford Underwood was the son of Owen Archibald Underwood (1906-1978) and Lorena Beatrice (Harvey) Underwood (1903-1977) of Three Mile Plains near Windsor, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, and the brother of Vivian Blanche Underwood (1928-2017). He died of convulsions on April 23, 1945, at the Hants Community Hospital in Windsor, Nova Scotia, after a week in hospital. His death certificate notes that a secondary cause as acute parenchymatous nephritis, and that he had previously been sick in South Africa. He was buried on April 25, 1945, and is interred at the Windsor Maplewood Cemetery in Windsor, Hants County, Nova Scotia.

Sources: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave