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In memory of:

Fireman Ovila Fregault

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Military service

Age: 34
Rank: Fireman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Thalia (Sylas, Greece) (142300)
Birth: February 5, 1906 Saint-Louis, Kent, New Brunswick
Death: October 18, 1940 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 17.
Additional information
His real surname is Frigault and served under that name.

Son of Maxime Frigault and Marie Thibodeau, of Saint-Louis, Kent, New Brunswick.

On 19 October 1940, the Thalia was sailing with the 34-ship SC-7 convoy from Montreal, Quebec, to Garston, England, when she was torpedoed at 1:55 a.m. by U-99 west of the British Isles in the North Atlantic. She sank in 40 seconds, position 57°00'N/11°30'W. The attack killed 22 crew members. The four survivors were rescued by the Norwegian cargo ship Snefjeld.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 138 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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