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In memory of:

Second Engineer Edward Lapage

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Military service

Age: 31
Rank: Second Engineer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Dunelm (Montréal, Québec) (123950)
Birth: September 27, 1884 Bienville, Lévis, Québec
Death: October 17, 1915 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 3.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Édouard Marcel Lepage.

Son of Jude Lepage and Émilie baron of Bienville, today Lévis, Québec.

This ship, designed for the Great Lakes, was requisitioned and used for purposes other than its construction allowed. On her second Atlantic crossing, she left the port of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, on 15 October 1915 without radio equipment. On the 17th she was seen passing Cape Race, Newfoundland. She was officially reported missing on 12 January 1916 with her crew of twenty sailors. No German submarine claimed to have sunk her.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 42 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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