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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Second Cook
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Maplecourt (Montreal, Québec) (141766)
Birth:
May 8, 1920
Hubbards, Nova Scotia
Death:
February 6, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of Victor Stanley Langille and Beulah Jane Corkum of Hubbards, Chester, Nova Scotia. During the First World War, Victor enlisted on 4 April 1916 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, regimental number 5879, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served in the defense of Halifax Harbour. Demobilized on 22 June 1918, he re-enlisted in the same unit the same day. Demobilized again on 17 January 1919, he enlisted one last time with the same unit, on 15 janvier 1919, service number 1274265. He was discharged on 22 June 1919 without ever having seen action.
A member of convoy SC-20, this ship was torpedoed at 13:53 on 6 February 1941 by U-107 and sank 120 miles (193 km) west of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°39'N/15°56'W.
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Commemorated on:
Page 170 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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