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Ivan Daniel MacPherson

In memory of:

4th Engineer Ivan Daniel MacPherson

November 2, 1942

Military Service


Age:

22

Force:

Merchant Navy

Unit:

Canadian Merchant Navy

Division:

S.S. Rose Castle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (137438)

Additional Information


Born:

January 20, 1920
Calendonia, Prince Edward Island

Son of Ivan Daniel MacPherson and Kathleen McPhee of Caledonia, Prince Edward Island. During the First World War, Ivan enlisted on July 31, 1915, at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, with the 2nd Battery Canadian Siege Artillery No. 6, regimental number 92815, replaced by M-10349, of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Sergeant with the 98th Battery Canadian Siege Artillery, he was wounded in action on October 27, 1916 at Longueville, Seine-et-Marne. Repatriated to Canada on 15 July 1917, he was demobilized on 11 February 1918. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

Rose Castle was torpedoed at anchor, awaiting convoy WB-9, by U-518 off Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, position 47°36'N/52°58'W.

Commemorated on Page 181 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada

Grave Reference:

Panel 20.

Location:

The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:

1914-1939
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.

On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.

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