that surround the Capes. Four men were swept overboard, and three of them were never recovered. Roland Cousins knew that he narrowly escaped death. The survivors were marooned on the wreck for ninety-six hours without food or water

until rescued.

World War 11 found Roland Emerson Cousins in the service of the Merchant

Navy. The ship whose crew he was a member of was formerly the French ship, St. Malo, which has been captured by the Canadians when France surrendered to the

Germans. The St. Malo, at the time of its capture, was docked at St. John, New Brunswick and had been engaged in the fruit trade with the West Indies. The ship, under the command of Captain Charles E. FinLay of Thetford, Ontario with a

Canadian crew, was an old coal-burner and not in very good condition when it sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia as part of a large convoy in October, 1940. The ship had fallen behind due to the old engines and couldn’t keep up with the faster ships. As a result, when the ship was only a few days from Halifax, it was sunk by a German submarine at night with the loss of twenty-eight men. There were only sixteen sur- vivors. Among those lost on that night in the North Atlantic was Roland Emerson

Cousins.

42. HALDANE DALTON

Haldane Dalton lost his life in the service of his county when he was killed in action as a fighter pilot over the English Channel. He was shot down by the Germans during a battle at night.

43. THE SHAW FAMILY AND THEIR ELEVEN SONS

A most unusual story came out of World War II, and it involved the Shaw family of Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island. We have heard of the five Sullivan brothers who served in the Armed forces in the U.S.A. during World War II, and the seven Kenny brothers from Waterford who served during the same conflict. The following article appeared in the Summerside Journal Pioneer newspaper in 1941 or

1942:

“SEVEN SONS FROM CAMPBELLTON FAMILY ON ACTIVE SERVICE

The father, Augustus Shaw, met Defense Minister Ralston at Summerside. A

man with seven sons already in the Armed Forces and two more who expect to be in shortly said yesterday at Summerside, his boys are ‘just doing their duty’.

‘1 don’t see why someone else should do our fighting for us’, said Augustus Shaw of Campbellton, Prince Edward Island, father of eleven boys and three girls. Four of his sons are in the army, three in the navy, and two others are waiting their call after volunteering for the navy and passing their medical examination.

The tenth son, seventeen years old, is going to join the Reserve Army until he is old enough to ‘go active’. The other boy is only fifteen years old.

‘No, I haven’t thought of it as being a great honor to have so many boys in the

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