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Military service
Age:
38
Rank:
Mess Room Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Empire Steelhead (London, England) (168009)
Birth:
May 11, 1902
Chatham, New Brunswick
Death:
February 26, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. C. Grave 50.
Additional information
Son of Archibald Harris Brushett and Louisa Sellars, of St. John, New Brunswick. Husband of Phyllis Jean Escott. Father of two children, including Anne Bernice Brushett.
On February 26, 1941. the Empire Steelhead was targeted by a German aircraft which dropped some bombs and damaged her about 10 miles (16 km) from Cromarty, Scotland, in the North Sea, position 080°. Seven sailors were killed.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 102 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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