He was appointed as an Able-Seaman RCNVR. (He was missing presumed killed while serving in HMCS Shawnigan (under command of Lt. William James Jones, RCNR) while she was on an independent anti-submarine patrol in the Cabot Strait, when she was torpedoed and sunk with all hands by the German submarine U-1228.)
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