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Military service
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. West Portal (San Francisco, U.S.A.) (220807)
Death:
February 5, 1943
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Foster-son of Mr. W. J. Betts, of Middleton, Nova Scotia.
On 5 February 1943, the West Portal, straggler from convoy SC-118, is torpideod at 2:05 PM by U-413. She received a coup de grâce at 3:21 pm and sank, position 53°N/33°O. All 32 crew members, 25 gunners and 12 passengers lost their life. There were no survivors.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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