Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John Kozar
In memory of:
Engineer Officer John Kozar
January 14, 1942
Military Service
28
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Friar Rock (Panama)
Additional Information
December 28, 1913
Vintondale, Pennsylvania
Son of Charles Kozar and Olana Balog of Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA. Charles was conscripted into the US Army, service number 1406 on 9 December 1918 and did not see action in the First World War. Husband of Jean Main Ewen de Gourdon, Kincardineshire, Scotland. Father of Tom Kozar. Brother of Staff Sergeant Michael Kozar, regimental number 11072207, killed in action in the Netherlands on 27 November 1944 while serving with the US Army. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. John fought for two years in the Spanish Civil War with the Loyalist Army. He died on 14 January 1942 of an unknown cause at an unspecified location.
Commemorated on Page 275 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 20.
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.
Digital Collection
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Details
Newspaper Clipping – Toronto Star "Pages of the Past" online 1942, Jan. 19 p. 17 Part 1 of 2 -
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Newspaper Clipping – Toronto Star "Pages of the Past" online 1942, Jan. 19 p. 17 Part 2 of 2
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