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Military service
Service number:
V/68471
Age:
19
Rank:
Stoker
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Valleyfield
Death:
May 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 12.
Additional information
Son of Harold W. and Winnifred A. Avey, of Brantford. Ontario.
Digital gallery of Stoker Sydney Charles Avey
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Photo of Sydney Charles Avey
Died on May 6, 1944, following the sinking of the Canadian Frigate Valleyfield, on convoy duty between Halifax and Londonderry. -
Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 -1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Stoker Sydney Charles Avey
Digital gallery of
Stoker Sydney Charles Avey
Digital gallery of
Stoker Sydney Charles Avey
Digital gallery of
Stoker Sydney Charles Avey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 240 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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