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Military service
Service number:
V/83944
Age:
32
Rank:
Leading Cook
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Esquimalt
Death:
April 16, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Naval Sec. Grave 236.
Additional information
Son of James and Margaret McIntyre, of Victoria.
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail May 9, 1945 -
HMCS Esquimalt
HMCS Esquimalt was a Bangor-class minesweeper. She was torpedoed in the approaches to Halifax, five miles off Chebucto Head, in the morning of 16 April 1945 by a German U-boat U-190. Forty-four crew members died. Esquimalt was the last Canadian warship lost to enemy action in the war.
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Leading Cook Thomas James McIntyre
Digital gallery of
Leading Cook Thomas James McIntyre
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 543 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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