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Military service
Age:
19
Rank:
Mess Room Boy
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
MV Hoegh Silverdawn (Oslo, Norway)
Death:
June 15, 1943
Indian Ocean
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23.
Additional information
Son of Pauline O'Brien, of Montreal, Province of Quebec.
The Norwegian motor ship Hoegh Silverdawn, en route from Fremantle, Australia, to Basra, Iraq, with a military cargo, was shelled and torpedoed by the German privateer Michel and was sunk southeast of the Cocos Islands, Keeling, in the Indian Ocean, position 25°40'S0/92°00'E.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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