Son of Edward Beasley Banks and Emma Jane Banks; husband of Hilda Banks, of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham.
Master of the steamship Medjerda and was lost when the ship was torpedoed off the west coast of Africa.
The Medjerda sailed in Convoy SLS.56 from Freetown (Sierra Leone), on 19th November, 1940 initially to Liverpool and on to Oban. She arrived at Liverpool on December 12th, 1940.
At 04.00 hours on March 18, 1941, the steamship Medjerda (sailing to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore from Pepel) was straggling from convoy SL.68 when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-105. The position was 17N, 21W (E of the Cape Verde Islands). The master (Charles Edward Banks), fifty-one crew members and four DEMS gunners lost their lives and are commemorated on Tower Hill, Panel 69. There were no survivors.
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3/1941 | Pepel | Medjerda | ||