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Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Quartermaster
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Vancouver Island (Montreal, Québec) (170160)
Birth:
November 1, 1908
British Columbia
Death:
October 15, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of George John Moraes and Josette Jane Tolmie of Victoria, British Columbia. During the First World War, George enlisted on 13 October 1916 in Victoria with the 230th Forestry Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 1012827. Sent to England, he never crossed to the continent to take part in the fighting. Repatriated on 20 May 1918, he was demobilized on the 8th of July.
A member of convoy SC-48, the Vancouver Island was torpedoed at 22:49 on 15 October 1941 by U-558 and sank quickly at 11:17 pm West of Ireland, position 53°37'N/25°37'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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