For Posterity's Sake         

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

 

They made the Ultimate Sacrifice 

 

Larry Adam Viczko

 

Lieutenant, O-75115, RCN

 

Born: 25 Aug 1932, Prud'homme, Saskatchewan

 

Died: 25 Aug 1962, Napanee, Ontario

 

Book of Remembrance

 

VICZKO, Larry Adam, Lt, O-75115, RCN, died - 25 Aug 1962, HMCS BONAVENTURE - son of George and Regina Viczko of Abbottsford, BC; husband of Joan Frances (née Mason) Viczko Roberts; father of Susan Joan and Gregory Michael; and brother of George, Francis, Michael, Herman, Mary, Irene, Agnes and Monica.

 

Lieut. William Patrick Dall, 27 of Port Wallace, N.S., and Belleville, and Lieut. Larry Adam Viczko, 20 of Dartmouth, N.S., and Abbotsford, B.C. died when their twin-engined Grumman CS2F-1 tracker craft plunged into a farmer's field, three miles north of Trenton after taking off from Trenton's RCAF station. The plane left Shearwater, N.S., on a training flight, arriving at Downsview Airport in Toronto and then flew to Trenton.

 

Ships served in: 

HMCS BONAVENTURE

 

 

Articles on the death of Lt William Dall and Lt. Larry Viczko

 


 

In Service of Canada - RCN Peacetime Casualty Index

 

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