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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Maplecourt (Montreal, Québec) (141766)
Birth:
November 26, 1916
Ste-Rose-de-Lima, Papineau, Québec
Death:
February 6, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
His full name is Josaphat Maurice Rolland Potvin.
Son of Samuel Potvin and Rose Meilleur from Angers (today Gatineau), Québec.
A member of convoy SC-20, this ship was torpedoed at 13:53 on 6 February 1941 by U-107 and sank 120 miles (193 km) west of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°39'N/15°56'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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