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Son of Captain Benjamin Melsop Bowen and Elva Annie Steenburg, of Trenton, Ontario; Husband of Mary Beachnel Whitley, of Calgary, Alberta. Father of Patricia Mary Bowen.
On March 29, 1942, the SS Bateau, a member of convoy PQ-13, was shot and torpedoed by the German destroyer Z-26 in the Barents Sea, while on route from Iceland to Murmansk, USSR. Of the crew of 46 sailors, 40 lost their lives. The six survivors were rescued by HMS Eclipse (H08) and landed in Murmansk.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 98 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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