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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Vancouver Island (Montreal, Québec) (170160)
Birth:
July 9, 1920
Lunenburg Village, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 15, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
His full name is Donald Roseville Crouse.
Son of John Wesley Crouse and Ida May Zinck, of Middle La Have, Nova Scotia.
A member of convoy SC-48, the Vancouver Island was torpedoed at 22:49 on 15 October 1941 and sank quickly at 23:17 West of Ireland, position 53°37'N/25°37'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 119 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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