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Military service
Age:
18
Rank:
Oiler
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Mont Louis (Montreal) (147791)
Birth:
May 11, 1923
Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Death:
May 8, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of John Charles Bagnell et Helen Jean Covey, de Louisburg, Nova Scotia.
On May 9, 1942, at 2:12 a.m., Mont Louis was torpedoed by U-162 southwest of Trinidad and sank immediately, position 08°23'N/58°44'W.
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Oiler Harold William Bagnell was one of 13 members of the crew of S.S. Mont Louis who were lost at sea when the vessel was torpedoed off the coast of Guyana by U-162 on May 8, 1942. Eight members of the crew survived. U-162 torpedoed and sank 14 ships from September 1941 until, September 3, 1942, when she was sunk north-east of Trinadad by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Vimy, HMS Pathfinder and HMS Quentin. 49 of her crew of 51 survived. Source: Globe and Mail, July 7, 1942. -
Mont Louis
Source: Historical Collection of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University (Uboat.net) -
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Oiler Harold William Bagnell
Digital gallery of
Oiler Harold William Bagnell
Digital gallery of
Oiler Harold William Bagnell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 89 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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