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Son of Frank James Glenn and Ida Jane Westbrook of Goderich, Huron, Ontario. During the First World War, he enlisted on 4 January 1916 in Wainwright, Alberta, with the 151st Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 624244. Transferred to the 16th Overseas Battalion, he landed in France on 13 November 1916. Often ill, he was repatriated to Canada on 7 October 1918, where he was demobilized.
At 0:15 am on 29 October 1942, the Bic Island was torpedoed and sunk by U-224 southwest of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°05'N/23°27'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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