He was appointed as a Petty Officer Stoker RCNVR. (He was killed while serving in HMCS Alberni when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-480 in the English Channel approximately 25 nautical miles (46 km) southeast of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight on 21/08/1944 with a loss of 59 crew.)
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