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Third Mate Arthur Pain

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Military service

Age: 31
Rank: Third Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Bic Island (Montreal, Quebec) (141871)
Birth: May 10, 1911 Edmonton, England
Death: October 29, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
Additional information
His full name is Arthur Albert John Pain.

Son of Arthur Albert Pain and Lily Maud Winifred Payne of Bournemouth, England. Husband of Rosaleen Margaret Harper of Prock Ferry, Birkenhead, England. Father of one child.

At 0:15 am on 29 October 1942, the Bic Island was torpedoed and sunk by U-224 southwest of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°05'N/23°27'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 205 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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