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Wheelman Francis Raymond Murphy

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Military service

Age: 33
Rank: Wheelman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Lennox (Montréal, Québec) (145545)
Birth: February 9, 1909 Saint John, New Brunswick
Death: February 22, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Francis Henry Murphy and Gertrude Marie Kelly of Saint John, New Brunswick.

On 23 February 1942, at 3:04 pm, the Lennox was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-129 north-east of Barima, Venezuela, position 09°15'N/58°30'W. Two sailors were killed. The captain and 17 crew members were rescued by the SS Athelrill and landed at Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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Page 199 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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