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In memory of:

Assistant Steward Arthur George Wakefield

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Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Assistant Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: MV Vancouver Island (Montreal, Québec) (170160)
Birth: January 15, 1911 Montreal, Québec
Death: October 15, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 19.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Arthur Georges Wakefield.

Son of Walter Joseph Wakefield and Jessie Rose Allebone from Montréal, Québec. Husband of Claire Prévost from Abord-à-Plouffe, Île-Jésus, Québec. Father of three children, including Laurent Wakefield.

A member of convoy SC-48, the Vancouver Island was torpedoed at 22:49 on 15 October 1941 by U-558 and sank quickly at 11:17 pm West of Ireland, position 53°37'N/25°37'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 244 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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