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Son of John James Murphy and Susannah Studd Paine of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Husband of Grace Anna Snooks of Halifax. Father of Robert William and Eleanore Paine.
On 15 July 1942, the Gloucester Castle sailed from Liverpool, England, to Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, with 12 passengers, 142 crew and 6 gunners. It was boarded by the German raider Michel, Schiff 28, and sunk by gunfire off the south-west African coast in South Atlantic. The attack cost the captain, 92 passengers and crew their lives. Two lifeboats with 61 people were captured by the raider and the occupants were landed in Japan as prisoners of war.
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Commemorated on:
Page 205 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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