Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Reginald Gray
In memory of:
Able Seaman Reginald Gray
October 21, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
29
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Treverbyn (St. Ives, England) (142576)
Additional Information
January 1, 1912
Esquimalt, British Columbia
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.
Commemorated on Page 146 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 18.
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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