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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Quartermaster
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Vancouver Island (Montreal, Québec) (170160)
Birth:
March 9, 1920
Stellarton, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 15, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of Norman Bayfield Macphail and Sarah Jane Harris of Truro, Nova Scotia.
A member of convoy SC-48, the Vancouver Island was torpedoed at 22:49 on 15 October 1941 by U-558 and sank quickly at 11:17 pm West of Ireland, position 53°37'N/25°37'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 181 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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