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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Rose Castle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (137438)
Birth:
August 2, 1921
Lethbridge, Alberta
Death:
November 2, 1942
Offshore, Newfoundland & Labrador
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Edwin Monrad Stromsmoe and Pearl Esther Lundgren of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Rose Castle was torpedoed at anchor, awaiting convoy WB-9, by U-518 off Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, position 47°36'N/52°58'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 235 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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