Engineer Officer Clifford Goodison HALLOWELL
Merchant Navy S.S. Empress of Canada (London)
14 Mar 1943 aged 21
Tower Hill Memorial,Panel 47.
Stanley Hallowell and Ethel Wood were married at the Mount Tabor Church on Wellington Road, in 1919 with Clifford being born three years later in 1922
On 13 March 1943, the S.S. Empress of Canada was sailing from Durban in South Africa to Takoradi, Ghana carrying Italian prisoners of war along with Polish and Greek refugees. The S.S. Empress of Canada was torpedoed at midnight and sunk by the Marconi-class submarine Leonardo da Vinci (Lieutenant Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia) approximately 400 miles south of Cape Palmas, Liberia.
Of the approximate 1800 people on board, 392 died. Nearly half of the fatalities reported were Italian prisoners. British rescuers saved 800 of those aboard.
S.S. Empress of Canada (photo from wikipedia)
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