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In memory of:

Able Seaman Francis Joseph Walsh

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Military service

Age: 24
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SV Angelus, A three-masted barguentine (Montréal, Québec)
Birth: February 24, 1919 Moncton, New Brunswick
Death: May 19, 1943 Caribean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 23.
Additional information
His full name is Francis Joseph Stewart Walsh.

Son of Francis Walsh and Lumina Babineau from Moncton, New Brunswick.

On 19 May 1943, at 11:30 a.m., the three-masted sailing ship Angelus was intercepted and sunk by gunfire by U-161 north of Bermuda, position 38°40'N/64°00'W. When the lifeboats were located five days later by the US destroyer USS Turner (DD-648) only two of the occupants were still alive. The others were swept away by the strong sunlight. The two survivors were landed in Portland, Maine, USA, on 27 May.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 245 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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