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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Maplecourt (Montreal, Québec) (141766)
Birth:
February 5, 1921
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Death:
February 6, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of Angus Francis Trefry and Reta M. Hurlburt of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. During the First World War, Angus enlisted as a conscript on 25 February 1918 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the Nova Scotia Regiment, regimental number 3180581. Sent to England, he was repatriated on 3 July 1919 without ever having seen action. He was demobilized on 13 July.
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 242 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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