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Seaman Lester Brehaut MacPherson

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Military service

Age: 21
Rank: Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Liguria Gothenburg, Sweden) (5646)
Birth: December 25, 1919 Calendonia, Prince Edward Island
Death: March 29, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 19.
Additional information

Son of Samuel William and Mary Ann MacPherson, of Caledonia, Prince Edward Island.

Brother of Stoker 1st Class John Samuel MacPherson service number V-1484, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve on 8 November 1942 aboard of the HMS Walney during the North Africa Invasion, operation Torch.

On 29 March 1941, the Liguria was sailing unescorted away from convoy OB-302 when she was torpedoed by U-46 and sank in six minutes after breaking in two 300 miles (483 km) south-south-west of Reykjavik, Iceland, position 59°27'N/24°36'W. On 3 April, the SS Athenic picked up 8 survivors on a raft and 3 in a dinghy. One man later died of exposure. On the 4th, this ship was torpedoed by U-76 without causing any casualties. On the 5th, all the sailors were rescued by the British corvette HMS Arbutus (K86) and disembarked in Liverpool, England, on the 8th. Of the Liguria's crew, 16 lost their lives and 10 survived.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 181 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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