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In memory of:

Chief Officer James Edward Landry

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Military service

Age: 44
Rank: Chief Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SV Mildred Pauline (Sydney, Nova Scotia)(142073)
Birth: October 21, 1897 Pointe Aconi, Nova Scotia
Death: May 1, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Daniel Landry, captain of a ship, and Annie Maud Forrest of McCreadyville, Nova Scotia. Brother of Able Seaman Norman Earl Landry who perished with the Mildred Pauline.

On 23 April 1942, the Mildred Pauline left Barbados for St. John's, Newfoundland. At 1:33 am on 8 May, without escort, she was boarded and sunk after 102 shells fired from the deck gun of U-136 425 miles (684 km) south-east of Nova Scotia, position 39°45'N/55°26'W. All seven crew members lost their lives.

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Page 169 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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