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Military service
Age:
37
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Saint Malo (Ottawa, Ontario) (142298)
Birth:
December 17, 1902
West La Have, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 12, 1940
West of Hebrides Islands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17.
Additional information
Son of Obediah D. Richard and Lucretia Wentzell from Pleasantville, Nova Scotia. Brother of Private Nelson Muriel Richard who enlisted on 4 April 1918 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the Nova Scotia Regiment, regimental number 4050432. He fought in France with the Royal Canadian Regiment and survived the conflict.
300 miles (483 km) west of the Hebrides Islands, Scotland, on 12 October 1940, at 23:25, the Saint Malo was sailing with convoy HX-77 when she was torpedoed by U-101. She broke in two and sank, position 57°58'N/16°32'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 217 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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