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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
M.V. Montrolite (Montreal, Québec) (142843)
Birth:
May 14, 1920
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
February 4, 1942
Caribbean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 20.
Additional information
Son of William James Gillespie and Nellie Butler of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
On 5 February 1942, at 1:42 am, U-109 launched two torpedoes that hit the Montrolite in the stern. At 2:32 am, the tanker received her coup de grace and sank southeast of Bermuda in the Caribbean Sea, position 35°14'N/60°05'W.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 142 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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