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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Treverbyn (St. Ives, England) (142576)
Birth:
January 1, 1912
Esquimalt, British Columbia
Death:
October 21, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of John George Gray and Maria Louise Petch of Brentford, Middlesex, England. John George served with the 6th Dragoon Guards from 1893 to 1903, with the 21st Company of the Canadian Army Service Corps from 10 April 1916 to 30 September 1917, with the 11th Detachment of the Canadian Military Police Corps, regimental number 2583343, from 17 October 1917 to 31 December 1918, promoted Lance Corporal on 30 May 1918 and Corporal on 1 July 1919. He was demobilised on 30 January 1920 without ever having taken part in the war.
On 21 October 1941, at 10 h 31 pm, the Treverbyn was torpedoed by U-82 Southwest of Cape Clear, Ireland. She sank within three minutes with her captain, 37 crew members and 10 gunners, position 51°N/19°W. There were no survivors.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 146 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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