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Son of Arthur James Holmans and Margaret Patterson Moncrief of Belleoram, Newfoundland. Arthur served in the First World War, service number 5617. Brother of Private Jeremiah Holmans of the Newfoundland Regiment. He fought in Europe in the First World War.
On 19 May 1943, at 11:30 a.m., the three-masted sailing ship Angelus was intercepted and sunk by gunfire by U-161 north of Bermuda, position 38°40'N/64°00'W. When the lifeboats were located five days later by the US destroyer USS Turner (DD-648) only two of the occupants were still alive. The others were swept away by the strong sunlight. The two survivors were landed in Portland, Maine, USA, on 27 May.
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Page 156 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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