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Military service
Age:
17
Rank:
Mess Room Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. S.N.A.8 (Glasgow, Scotland) (165977).
Birth:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
November 19, 1940
Sheerness, United Kingdom
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
S.N.A. 8 was part of convoy FN-337 which left Methyl, England, on November 17, 1940, escorted by the destroyers HMS Valorous (L10) and HMS Versatile (D32). Shortly before arriving in Southend, East of England, the convoy was attacked. Breen died on November 19, 1940, in hospital in Sheerness, Kent, England, from injuries sustained in the German air raid on the same day.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 100 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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