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Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Rose Castle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (137438)
Birth:
March 7, 1911
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Death:
November 2, 1942
Offshore, Newfoundland & Labrador
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
Son of Vera Lila Wasson from Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia. Husband of Mary Ada Kelsey from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Father of Alma Lorraine Wasson.
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 245 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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