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Oiler George Arthur Glenn

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Military service

Age: 36
Rank: Oiler
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Bic Island (Montréal, Québec) (141871)
Birth: February 14, 1906 West Wawanosh, Ontario
Death: April 3, 1942 North Atlantic

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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.

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Page 143 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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