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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Third Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Fort Longueuil (London, England)(168397)
Birth:
January 1, 1915
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Death:
September 20, 1943
Indian Ocean
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Samuel Perry and Ethel Brown of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Husband of Kathleen Gray of Medicine Hat, then Ottawa, Ontario.
On 19 March 1943, this ship was torpedoed by U-532 southwest of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, position 10°00'S/68°00'E. The two survivors were taken prisoner by the Japanese and imprisoned in Sumatra.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 209 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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