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They made the Ultimate Sacrifice 

 

Duncan Alexander MacDonald

 

Able Seaman, V52782, RCNVR

 

Born: 15 May 1923, Dalhousie, New Brunswick

 

Died: 22 Aug 1944 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

MacDONALD, Duncan Alexander, AB, V52782, RCNVR, killed - 22 Aug 1944, HMS NABOB - son of Frederick A. MacDonald and Maude A. MacDonald, of Dalhousie, NB.

 

AB MacDonald died when his ship, HMS NABOB, was hit by a torpedo from U-354 which resulted in the loss of 21 of NABOB'S crew. NABOB made it back to port but was never repaired. She was later paid off and sold for scrap.

 

AB MacDonald is buried in the Douglas Bank Cemetery, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

 

Ships served in:

HMCS BRUNSWICKER

HMCS YORK

HMCS BURRARD

HMS NABOB

 

DM01

DM02

DM03

DM04

DM05

DM06

(DM01) Certificate of Service

(DM02) Naval Training and Active Service record

(DM03-DM04) Service Summary

(DM05) Report of Death

(DM06) Letter to AB MacDonald's mother informing her of the details of the torpedoing of HMS Nabob and the death of her son.

 


 

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