Of the 101 men in TRENTONIAN when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-1004 on 22 February 1945 in the English Channel off Falmouth, six were killed or lost with the ship (see Honour Roll) and 96 were rescued, fourteen of these men were wounded, several critically.
Below is the Nominal Roll of the survivors and wounded (*) during that fateful day.
OFFICERS
Glassco, Colin Stinson, Lieutenant, RCNVR, Commanding Officer, Hamilton, ON
Kinsmen, William Burley, Lieutenant, RCNVR, Executive Officer, Vancouver, BC
Abbott, Ralph Patrick, Lieutenant, RCNVR, Navigating Officer, Oakville, ON
Dodds, Donald Jackson, Lieutenant, RCNVR, Westmount, PQ
Mowat, James Keith, Acting Lieutenant, RCNVR, Westmount, PQ
Hindle, Hamilton Francis, Warrant Officer, RCN, Engineer Officer, Vancouver, BC
CREW
Newfoundland
*Bennett, Rupert Stanley -Conception Bay
Prince Edward Island
Dye, Harry –Summerside
Nova Scotia
Chadbolt, George –Halifax
Farmer, James Keith –New Glasgow
Johnston, Ross Allison –Halifax
Nolan, Lee Fraser –Halifax
Roberts, Donald Osborne –Derbert Station
Roberts, Thomas Raymond –Halifax
Roden, Bernard Gerald Joseph –Halifax
Walsh, William Francis –Newport
New Brunswick
Eldridge, Gilbert Edwin –Beaver Harbour
Québec
Barber, Walter Thomas –St. Lambert
Barron, Frank Henry –Montreal
Chapman, Isaie –Hull
Farrell, Thomas Philip –Montreal
Hayward, George Albert –Montreal
Kevins, Philip Anthony –Verdun
McKay, John Clifford –Terrebonne
Ontario
Angus, Murray Ross –Smith Falls
Bateman, Earl Douglas -Cobalt
Beaumon, Delmar Stanley –Glen Williams
Beer, Writer Jack –Toronto
Bergin, Michael George –Ottawa
*Campbell, Hector Douglas –Ottawa
Clark, Henry Alexander –King
Crampton, Norman Benjamin –Carleton Place
Davidson, James Archibald –Gatchell
Erwin, Robert J. –Toronto
Gibbons, Gordon –Acton
Goar, George Harvey –Toronto
Grey, Robert William –Toronto
Grigor, Alexander –London
Harley, Gordon –Hamilton
Holden, John –Windsor Vak,
Jacobs, William David –Ottawa
*Karns, Lewis Charles –London
Keir, Bruce Dunston –Toronto
Majoros, Leslie –Hamilton
Muff, Eric Edward –Toronto
McIntyre, Norman –Hilton Beach
Poulin, Edmund Joseph –Ottawa
*Rickard, James Allen –Port Arthur
Runtz, Weldon Walter –Arnprior
Salmon, Harold Keith –Hamilton
Scott, John Richardson –Port Arthur
Shanahan, John Charles –Clinton
Shields, William Noel –Oakville
Simpson, Gordon Thomas –Toronto
Straw, Jack Eugene –Hamilton
Terrell John William –Toronto
*Thorogood, Edwin –Brantford
Vak, Michael –Port Arthur
Yakowenko, Joseph –London
Manitoba
*Brako, Lawrence Douglas –Minnedosa
Gosskie, Joseph Edward –Birnie
Johnson, Russell Arden –Clanwilliam
Karbonic, Stanley Lawrence –East Kildonan
Kresko, John –Transcona
*MacIver, Alexander John –Winnipeg
Slater, Arthur Bernard –Winnipeg
Robertson, Thomas W. –Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Baker, Elmer Bernard –Tribune
Cochran, Maurice Edward –Ratener
Evans, Roy –Saskatoon
*Guthrie, George Walter, Regina
*Hadley, Vincent Earnest –Prince Albert
*Hanson, Odell Lorne –Nipawin
McLaughlin, George Robert -Saskatoon
*Meyer, Peter Barrington –Regina
*Murphy, Lewis Joseph –Moose Jaw
Powell, Robert James –Portreeve
Saretzky, Leo Bernard –Richlea
Singleton, Allan Egerton –Saskatoon
Taylor, Robert Creighton –Weyburn
Alberta
Coates, Sidney John –Carbon Starr,
Starr, Charles R. –Calgary
British Columbia
*Atkinson, Sidney Charles –Vancouver
*Baril, William Richard –Trail
Brennan, Bernard Benjamin –Victoria
Butler, Thomas Walter –Vancouver
Excell, Douglas –New Westminster
Gurr, Patrick Charles –Kelowna
Lounsbury, Raymond -Vancouver
Medhurst, Richard Paul –Victoria
Miner, Reginald Allen –Vancouver
Roy, Robert Alex –Vancouver
Sharpe, Norman Henry –Vancouver
Thompson, Wilfred Bruce –Vancouver
British West Indies
Graham, Darcy Hamel –San Juan, Trinidad
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