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Pumpman Eugene Arnold Hilchey

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Military service

Age: 32
Rank: Pumpman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Victolite (Victoria, British Columbia) (160197)
Birth: December 15, 1909 Tangier, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death: February 11, 1942 Caribbean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Emery Clarison Hilchey and Charlotte Margaret Etta Wambold of Darmouth, Nova Scotia. Husband of Florence May McLeod of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Father of three children, including Eugene Gordon and Betty Charlotte Hilchey.

According to the logbook of the submarine U-564, she was torpedoed on 11 February 1942 and sank at about 06:05 a.m. 260 nautical miles (299 miles/480 km) north-north-west of Bermuda after being hit by two torpedoes, resisting an explosive scuttling charge and 98 shots from a deck gun, position 36°12'N/67°14'W. There were no survivors out of a crew of 47 members.

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Page 155 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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