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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
First Mate
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Mont Louis (Montréal, Québec) (147791)
Birth:
St-Michel, Bellechasse, Québec
Death:
May 8, 1942
Caribbean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Laurent Yves André Larochelle.
Son of Laurent Edmont Larochelle, merchant sailor, and Honorine Lachance of St-Michel, Bellechasse, Québec.
On 9 May 1942, at 2:12 am, Mont Louis was torpedoed by U-162 southwest of Trinidad, in the Caribbean sea, and sank immediately, position 08°23'N/58°44'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 170 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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