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Military service
Service number:
J39494
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Navy Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Warrior
Birth:
September 7, 1923
Regina, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
October 7, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
January 31, 1947
Patricia Bay, British Columbia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 7.
Additional information
Son of Roy Ferguson and Edith Kate (nee Fowkes) Gavel, of Vancouver, British Columbia; husband of Jean Loraine Gavel, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Stepbrother of Clarence. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 30 September 1945. He saw service in Canada and the High Seas.
The province of British Columbia honoured Lieutenant Gavel by naming Gavel Lake in his honour.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 595 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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