Cyril was born in 1921. He was the son of Thomas Conners and Lillas Keating. He perished following the U-boat attack on the HMCS Shawinigan (K136) between Sydney, Nova Scotia and Port-aux-Basques during the early morning hours of November 25, 1944. The other 84 members of the ship also died in the sinking.
Commemorated on the Halifax Memorial.[1]
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Categories: Killed in Action, Canada, World War II | Battle of the Atlantic | HMCS Shawinigan (K136), Royal Canadian Navy, World War II