Son of Dr. John C. Seymour Traynor and Janeth Barrie Nicoll of Vancouver, British Columbia. During the First World War, John enlisted as a lieutenant surgeon on 25 January 1916, in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He served in England and then France with various units. Seriously ill, he was repatriated to Canada and demobilized with the rank of Major on 31 October 1919 at Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Hospital, Quebec.
On 27 November 1940, she left Liverpool, England, with convoy SC-13 when she was caught in a violent storm 200 miles (322 km) east of St. John's, Newfoundland, and sank.
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