Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Charles Raymond Pieroway
In memory of:
Oiler Charles Raymond Pieroway
September 3, 1944
North Atlantic
Military Service
35
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Livingston (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)(149470)
Additional Information
March 10, 1909
Sandy Point, Newfoundland and Labrador
Son of George Thomas Pieroway and Martha Jane Renouf of St. Georges, Newfoundland, Husband of Olive Pearl Butler of Humbermouth, Newfoundland. Father of eight children, including Benjamin Earle, Joycelym, Rosemary, Robert G. and Barbara E. Pieroway.
Cousin of Edward P. Pieroway, ship's boy on the HMCS Musquash, who died in the explosion in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, on 6 December 1917. He was 16 years old and serving with the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve.
On 3 September 1944, she was on her way to Newfoundland without escort when she was torpedoed at 8:45 am off Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, by U-541 and sank with 14 crew members and one gunner, position 46°15'N/58°05'W. The captain, 12 sailors and a gunner were rescued by the Canadian corvette HMCS Barrie (K138) who landed them in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Commemorated on Page 211 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 23.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
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Photo of CHARLES PIEROWAY – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Merchant Navy Monument in St. John's, NL -
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