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Military service
Age:
40
Rank:
Cook
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Fort Longueuil (London, England) (168397)
Birth:
May 9, 1903
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Death:
September 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Josiah Edwin Austin and Emily Reed, England.
On March 19, 1943, this ship was torpedoed by U-532 southwest of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, position 10°00'S/68°00'E. The two survivors were taken prisoner by the Japanese and imprisoned in Sumatra.
Digital gallery of Cook Ernest Brian Austin
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Photo of ERNEST BRIAN AUSTIN
Submitted by his nephew. Lest we forget.
Digital gallery of
Cook Ernest Brian Austin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 88 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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