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Military service
Age:
60
Rank:
Chief Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Chr. J.Kampmann (Montréal, Québec) (173233)
Birth:
January 1, 1882
Dundee, Scotland
Death:
November 3, 1942
Caribean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Gilroy Pope and Margaret Fleming from Dundee, Angus, Scotland. Husband of Elizabeth Thomson from Berwyn, Alberta. Father of Arhur Gilroy, Elizabeth Gilroy and Kenneth MacLennan Pope.
Sailing with convoy TAG-18, she was torpedoed on 3 November 1942 at 2:02 am by U-160 northwest of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea, position 12°06'N/62°42'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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