Stone dedicated to HMCS TRENTONIAN by the citizens of Trenton, Ontario.
This page is dedicated to the seven Royal Canadian Navy sailors who gave their lives while serving in HMCS TRENTONIAN.
One crew member died during TRENTONIAN’s fifteen months of service and six men where lost with their ship on 22 February 1945.  Only two sailors have graves, while the other five men are buried at sea and rest with TRENTONIAN in the English Channel.
The link below the sailors photo will open on a new page for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for that individual.
“Lest We Forget!”
WELLS, Aubrey Calland
Leading Seaman, RCNVR,
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Age 29 years
Deceased
16 November 1944
Buried – Cardiff Western Cemetery
Headstone -“There is peace and rest in paradise”
BECK, Moyle Kitchener
Leading Seaman, RCNR,
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Age 28 years
Missing, Presumed Dead
22 February 1945
Commemorated
Halifax Memorial
Panel 7
CATHRINE, Robert Thomas
Able Seaman, RCNVR,
Windsor, Ontario.
Age 19 years
Missing, Presumed Dead
22 February 1945
Commemorated
Halifax Memorial
Panel 13
FOURNIER, John Alfred
Leading Seaman, RCNVR,
Windsor, Ontario.
Age 21 years
Missing, Presumed Dead
22 February 1945
Commemorated
Halifax Memorial
Panel 13
HARVEY, Colin Bancroft
Leading Seaman, RCNR,
Seal Cove, New Brunswick.
Age 23 years
Missing, Presumed Dead
22 February 1945
Commemorated
Halifax Memorial
Panel 7
MCCORMICK, John
Stoker, RCNVR,
Belleville, Ontario.
Age 19 years
Missing, Presumed Dead
22 February 1945
Commemorated
Halifax Memorial
Panel 13
STEPHEN, Gordon Kent
Lieutenant, RCNVR,
Toronto, Ontario.
Age 24 years
Killed in Action
22 February 1945
Buried –Falmouth Cemetery
Headstone -“Beloved son of John and Ellen F. Stephen, Dear brother of Stuart, Toronto, Canada”
HMCS TRENTONIAN Memorial Window in the Chapel of Remembrance at Stadacona in Halifax. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL64695)
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