HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Chiefs and Petty Officers from all departments pose for a photo following an inspection by Rear-Admiral Fairbairn, RN (FOIC) Milford Haven, in October 1944.

Left to Right, Front row: CPO Thomas Roberts, Coxswain, A/SPO William Walsh (Newport, NS), C/ERA Murray Angus (Smith Falls, ON), SPO Earl Bateman (Cobalt, ON) and A/PO Richard Medhurst (Victoria, BC). Top Row: ERA William Clarke, ERA James Farmer (New Glasgow, NS), SPO Lee Nolan (Halifax, NS), PO Bernard Roden (Halifax, NS), E.A. Edwin Thorogood (Brantford, ON) and SPO Robert Arkley (Victoria, BC).

Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK180)

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