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Son of Maurice and Margaret O'Brien, of St. John's, Newfoundland. Husband of Nellie O'Brien.
Brother of Able Seaman Maurice Joseph Francis O'Brien, regimental number C/JX-181095, who died on 2 December 1940 while serving on board HMS Forfar (F30) in the Royal Navy, and of Seaman David O'Brien, regimental number T124T, who drowned on 28 September 1942 while serving on board the Royal Navy tug HMRT Frisky (W11).
On 24 March 1941, at 10:58 pm, U-106 randomly torpedoed into a convoy and hit the Eastlea, which broke up and sank in 10 minutes about 130 miles (209 km) west-north-west of San Antonia, in the Cape Verde Islands, position 15°18'N/22°05'W. The attack took the lives of the 37 sailors on board. The Eastlea was reported missing on 30 March 1941.
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Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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