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Military service
Age:
44
Rank:
Boatswain
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Rose Castle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (137438)
Birth:
July 8, 1898
Lower Newcastle, New Brunswick
Death:
November 2, 1942
Offshore, Newfoundland & Labrador
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Eli Miles and Marie Louise Doiron of Tracadie, Nova Scotia. Husband of Julia Hardy of North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Father of four children, including Elsie and Freeman Miles.
Rose Castle was torpedoed at anchor, awaiting convoy WB-9, by U-518 off Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, position 47°36'N/52°58'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 193 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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