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Military service
Age:
46
Rank:
Master
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Bic Island (Montréal, Québec (141871)
Birth:
October 24, 1896
Glasgow, Scotland
Death:
October 29, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of James Brown and Elizabeth McEwan. Husband of Jean Sim, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Father of Ian Fraser Brown.
His name is also engraved on the Scottish National War Memorial 1914-1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At 12:15 a.m. on October 29, 1942, the Bic Island was torpedoed and sunk by U-224 southwest of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°05'N/23°27'W.
Digital gallery of Master James Brown
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Master James Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 102 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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