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    1. [Queens] Any Info of Merchant Navy Crew on Ship MAPLECOURT [SHAW]
    2. Margaret
    3. Hello Susan Gowen, ROLL CALL> Hope you or listers can help/assist me. SHAW. Joseph. Ordinary Seaman Bn Winnipeg. Manitoba. Can. Killed with 36 other crew members on board SS MAPLECOURT 6.Feb.1941, from Montreal, Canada > Preston, England, UK. Several birth dates given in ships crew list.!! Signed on board MAPLECOURT at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Sailed with 12 Firemen, 1 Gunner & 2 other listed Ordinary Seamen on board] Oridnary Seaman, James Bennett also signed on at Halifax.N.S. Canada. SHAW. Kenneth Barlow. Bn. Winnipeg.Manitoba. Can. May 1902 or 1912. Sailed with Canadian Merchant Navy. Arrived in UK. Served in Britsh Army in with Somerset Light Infirmtary, then R.A.S.C. >India, Burma, Germany, Africa. Retained Canadian Nationality until Death. SHAW. [sister to above, known as Kay]. Bn Unknown. Canada. Last known living in Nova Scotia or New Burnswick, Canada. Married several times. If not deceased would be elderly lady now. Parents of above siblings, Born in Derbyshire, England, UK. moved to Scotland before being part of Land Clearances, sent to Canada on Government Grant Scheme, believed to be late 1800s. May have entered Canada via Manitoba. SHAW. William Occ. Builder. and Wife nee BARLOW. Advised Wife died before husband. CWGC. Panel 19, States Parents from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at date of death of Joseph SHAW. Also believed to be in Halifax at time of 1st Bn Son Kenneth Barlow SHAW, sailed in Canadian Merchant Navy. Any leads/ information would be gratefully received. Many Thanks Margaret@merry49.fsnet.co.uk

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