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Military service
Age:
44
Rank:
Master
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Rose Castle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (137438)
Birth:
November 7, 1897
Goderich, Ontario
Death:
November 2, 1942
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of Malcolm MacDonald and Christine McClay of Goderich, Huron, Ontario. Husband of Mary Marcella Stafford of Toronto, Ontario. Father of Ronald Edward and Marian Cairine Teresa MacDonald.
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 179 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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