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In memory of:

Fourth Mate Gaston Lachance

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Military service

Age: 21
Rank: Fourth Mate
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Montrolite (Montreal, Québec) (142843)
Birth: June 11, 1920 Pointe-au-Père, Québec
Death: February 4, 1942 Caribbean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
Additional information
His full name is Joseph Arthur Gaston Lachance and served as Gaston J. Lachance.

Son of Rodrigue Lachance and Alma Lavoie of Pointe-au-Père, Rimouski, Québec.

On 5 February 1942, at 1:42 am, U-109 launched two torpedoes that hit the Montrolite in the stern. At 2:32 am, the tanker received her coup de grace and sank southeast of Bermuda in the Caribbean Sea, position 35°14'N/60°05'W.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 168 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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