In Memory Of

CHARD, RICHARD EDWIN

Service Details
Age:
 29
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Third Officer
Unit:
 S.S. Toronto City (Bristol)
Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
 1941-07-02
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at 1825 hours on 1 July 1941 the unescorted Toronto City (Master Edwin John Garlick) was hit in the bow by one G7e torpedo from U-108 about 500 miles north of the Azores and sank by the bow within three minutes. The Germans questioned 23 survivors on rafts and debris before leaving the area, but they were never seen again: the master, 37 crew members, two gunners and three meteorological office personnel were lost. The ship had been employed as a weather observation ship in the Atlantic since October 1940 and was reported missing after sending her last routine weather report at 1500 hours on 1 July
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 108.
Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 London
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Edwin Herbert and Susan Martha Chard. Born in 1912. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-45.