Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Percy Raymond Mailman
In memory of:
Cook Percy Raymond Mailman
August 4, 1941
Offshore, Virginia
Military Service
51
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
SS Liverpool Rover (Cardiff, Wales (145710)
Additional Information
May 28, 1890
Springfield, Nova Scotia
Son of Aron William Melman (aka Mailman) and Sophie Meldium of Nova Scotia. Husband of Emily Maxine Neal from Maine.
During the First World War, he enlisted on 15 February 1918 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the Nova Scotia Regiment, regimental number 4050179. Often hospitalized, he was transferred to the 6th Canadian Army Service Corps and deserted. On 27 June 1919, in Halifax, he was demobilized. He died on 4 August 1941 of thermal prostration aboard the Liverpool Rover off Mulberry Point, James River, Virginia.
Commemorated on Page 263 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
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