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In memory of:

Trimmer Albert Edward Gabriel

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Military service

Age: 20
Rank: Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Rose Castle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (137438)
Birth: July 22, 1922 Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: November 2, 1942 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 21.
Additional information

Son of Frederick Samuel Gabriel and Elizabeth Jane Youden, of Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Brother of Able Seaman Gordon Gabriel, regimental number P/JX-247959, killed in action on 28 January 1945, while serving aboard HMS Diadem (84), Private William Alfred Gabriel of the Newfoundland Regiment, Private Harold Herbert Gabriel, regimental number 33738123, and Seaman Herbert Valence Gabriel of the SS Theris. The latter three survived the Second World War.

Rose Castle was torpedoed at anchor, awaiting convoy WB-9, by U-518 off Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, position 47°36'N/52°58'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 139 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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