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Son of Alcide Veilleux and Zeïda Melançon from St-Victor-de-Tring, Bellechasse, Québec. His brother Ordinary Seaman Louis Phillipe Veilleux perished with him.
On 10 December 1941 the Nereus, which left St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, with ore, was sailing alone when it disappeared at sea. No German submarine claimed to have sunk her. Her wreckage has never been found. Sometimes coal boats accidentally caught fire from coal residue accumulated in the hold.
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Commemorated on:
Page 243 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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