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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Third Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Pink Star (Panama) (5606466)
Birth:
January 6, 1915
Cornwall, Ontario
Death:
September 19, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of James Vincent Martin and Cécilia Charron of Montréal, Québec. Husband of Mary Russell Williamson Gray of Coatbridge, Scotland. Father of James Vincent Martin.
On 20 September 1941, at 1:51 am, 275 miles (443 km) northeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland, the Pink Star was torpedoed by U-552 and sank immediately, position 61°36'N/35°07'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 184 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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