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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Mess Room Boy
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Nyland (Oslo, Norway)
Birth:
February 17, 1919
Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Death:
January 1, 1941
West of the Hebrides Islands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of Anthony Wallace McDougall and Rosalia Helen Burke of Main-à-Dieux, Cape Bretron, Nova Scotia. Brother of Sarah Josette McDougall, of Main a Dieu, Nova Scotia.
The Nyland ran aground on the western reef of Torran Rocks, Iona, Hebrides Islands, Scotland. She slipped and sank on 5 December 1940, taking the lives of six of the twenty crew members.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 187 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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