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Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Third Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Maplecourt (Montreal, Québec) (141766)
Birth:
January 1, 1909
Sundeit, Netherlands
Death:
February 6, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of Deny Luyten and Jean Kloël of Prince Edward Island. Husband of Mary Elizabeth Burnette of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Father of Shirley Mae Luyten.
A member of convoy SC-20, this ship was torpedoed at 13:53 on 6 February 1941 by U-107 and sank 120 miles (193 km) west of Rockall, an isolated rock between Ireland and Iceland, position 55°39'N/15°56'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 178 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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