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Fireman Roméo Gaudet

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Military service

Age: 16
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Donald Stewart (Montréal, Québec) (147765)
Birth: December 4, 1925 Cap aux Meules, Magdalen Islands, Québec
Death: September 3, 1942 Gulf of St. Lawrence

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 21.
Additional information
Son of Joseph Jean Gaudet and Marie Zénobie Boudreau, of Verdun (today Montréal, Québec).

On 3 September 1942 at 7:56 am, while sailing with convoy LN-7, the Donald Stewart was torpedoed by U-517 north-east of Cape Whittle, near Blanc-Salon, Quebec, in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and sank by the stern, position 50°32'N/58°46'W. Three sailors lost their lives. The survivors were picked up by the Canadian corvettes HMCS Shawinigan (K136) and HMCS Trail (K174) and landed in Quebec City.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 140 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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