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Military service
Age:
41
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Bic Island (Montreal, Quebec) (141871)
Birth:
March 11, 1901
Canisbay, Scotland
Death:
October 29, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
His full name is Alexander Walter Sinclair.
Son of Alexander Sinclair and Jessie Groat from Orkney, Scotland.
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.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 228 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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