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4th Engineer William McCollough Larkin

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Military service

Age: 33
Rank: 4th Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Proteus (Montreal, Québec) (173244)
Birth: June 1, 1908 Belfast
Death: November 23, 1941 Caribbean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of William Thomas McKeown Larkin and Lucinda Fowler Martin of Montréal, Quebec. Brother of Private Victor Alexander Larkin, who served overseas with the Canadian Army in the Second World War. He survived the conflict. Also, Norman Larkin was reservist with the Canadian Navy after the war.

This collier disappeared without a trace on 23 November 1941 in the Bermuda triangle.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 170 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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