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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps
Division:
S.S. Nerissa
Death:
April 30, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 14.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Jacques Horace and Mathilda M. H. Amos, of Quebec City.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Maurice Auguste Amos
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Memorial
Lieut. Amos had enlisted in the RCNVR but was transferred to the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps. He was among the 73 Canadian military who lost their lives when the SS Nerissa was sunk after being struck by German torpedoes off the coast of Ireland. -
Letter
Letter from Commanding Quebec Division RCNVR pg 1 -
Letter
Letter from Commanding Quebec Division RCNVR pg 2 -
Attestation paper
Army attestation form dated January 1941. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Maurice Auguste Amos
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Lieutenant Maurice Auguste Amos
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Maurice Auguste Amos
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Lieutenant Maurice Auguste Amos
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Maurice Auguste Amos
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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