Rank/Rate: Boatswain’s Mate, First Class

Service Number: 295 14 94

Birth Date: June 5, 1898

From: Knoxville, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal

Ship: USS Canopus (AS-9)

Date of Death: October 24, 1944

Location: Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru

Circumstances: Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)

Remarks: Photo courtesy of Mary Mihovich. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Canopus (AS-9)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Canopus (AS-9)

Find a Grave Memorial: BM1 William Harrison Patrick (Manila American Cemetery and Memorial)