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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Carpenter
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Bic Island (Montreal, Quebec) (141871)
Birth:
January 1, 1913
Harbour Breton, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
October 29, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Jacob Frederick Hollett Chapman and Selena Florence Sodereaux, of Harbour Breton, Fortune-Hermitage, Newfoundland.
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.
Digital gallery of Carpenter Basil Philip Chapman
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Merchant Navy Monument in St. John's, NL
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Dedication
Digital gallery of
Carpenter Basil Philip Chapman
Digital gallery of
Carpenter Basil Philip Chapman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 111 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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