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Sub.Lt. Edward Gorton Robbins
Royal Canadian Navy S.S. Nerissa
from:Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
(d.30th April 1941)
Edward Robbins was the Son of William Alan and Agnes Hyacinthe Robbins, of Oak Bay, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
He was onboard the SS Nerissa, enroute Halifax, Nova Scotia, to England, which was torpedoed on 30 April 1941, by U-552 commanded by Erich Topp, NW of Ireland. SS Nerissa was carrying Canadian troops, including a detachment of 175 North-West Mounted Police and their horses.
Robbins' body was washed ashore off the south-west coast of Co. Donegal and is buried in Killaghtee Old Graveyard, near Dunkineely, Co. Donegal. He was 21 years old.