Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Roland Emerson Cousins
In memory of:
Able Seaman Roland Emerson Cousins
October 12, 1940
Offshore Hebrides Islands, Scotland
Military Service
42
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Saint Malo (Ottawa, Ontario) (142298)
Additional Information
December 22, 1897
Campbellton, Prince Edward Island
Son of William Cousins and Emma Warren, of Campbelltown, Prince, Prince Edward Island. Husbands of Mary Alice Collicutt, of Prince Edward Island. Father of four children, including Alfred Lambert and Emerson Livingston Cousins.
During the First World War, he enlisted on 8 March 1916 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, with the 105th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, C Company, service number 712749. He arrived in England on 15 September and was physically unable to perform any military duties. Declared unfit for service, he was repatriated on the 23 September and demobilized in Quebec City, Quebec, on the following 15 October.
300 miles (483 km) west of the Hebrides Islands, Scotland, on 12 October 1940, at 23:25, the Saint Malo was sailing with convoy HX-77 when she was torpedoed by U-101. She broke in two and sank, position 57°58'N/16°32'W.
Commemorated on Page 117 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 17.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
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