[Abbu Jahir]

1946-04-15

Item is a register documenting the ships and seamen who shipped out of the Port of Vancouver. Ledger 32, Box, 32; page 23 consists of an individual, Abbu Jahir, from Bengal, India. He worked as a Fireman and a Trimmer[?] on Empire Austen. His reported age was 27 years old. His reported wage was "14-10-0."

Official number - 168983 The birthplace of Abbu Jahir is listed as Bengal. Due to the 1947 partition of India, Bengal was divided into two distinct entities: East Pakistan (now independent Bangladesh), and the Indian province of West Bengal. We have listed Bangladesh as the birthplace of Jahir, however the possibility of it being in West Bengal is also possible.

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