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Military service
Service number:
4458
Age:
23
Rank:
Leading Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Navy
Division:
H.M.C.S. Micmac (R10)
Birth:
October 23, 1923
Windsor, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 15, 1941
British Columbia
Death:
July 16, 1947
Off Sambro Head Light Vessel, Nova Scotia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Lot 59. Div. 2-3.
Additional information
Son of Joseph Acton and Mary Lane, of Windsor, Ontario. Husband of Marjorie Phyllis Morris, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A Veteran of the Second World War who had 1,721 days of service, including 1,139 overseas.
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Commemorated on:
Page 594 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HALIFAX (CAMP HILL) CEMETERY Nova Scotia, Canada
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