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Able Seaman Clarence Richards

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Military service

Age: 20
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Maplecourt (Montreal, Québec) (141766)
Birth: October 25, 1920 Petite Rivière, Nova Scotia
Death: February 6, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 19.
Additional information
His full name is Clarence St. Clair Richards.

Son of Foster Uriah Richards and Elvira Etta Conrad from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Foster's father's surname was Reihchert.

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 217 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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