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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Fireman and Coal Passer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Bateau (Panama)
Birth:
January 1, 1921
Death:
March 27, 1942
Barents Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21.
Additional information
On 29 March 1942, the SS Bateau, a member of convoy PQ-13, was shot and torpedoed by the German destroyer Z-26 in the Barents Sea, while en route from Iceland to Murmansk, USSR. Of the crew of 46 sailors, 40 lost their lives. The six survivors were rescued by HMS Eclipse (H08) and landed in Murmansk.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 124 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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