For Posterity's Sake A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project
They made the Ultimate Sacrifice
HUME, Arthur Edward, Sto 1c, VR5353, RNCVR, died - 30 Oct 1918, HMCS GALIANO - Son of John Archibald and Alice Isabella Hume, of New Westminster, BC.
On 29 Oct 1918 the GALIANO was sent with supplies to the light house at Triangle Island off Cape Scott at the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island. A number of her regular crew were unable to make the trip due to illness as the 1918 flu pandemic had reached her base at Esquimalt. She set out towards the Queen Charlotte Islands from Triangle Island at 5 pm on Oct 29th. When she made her only distress call at 3 am the next morning, she was estimated to be within visual range of the light at Cape St. James 95 miles from Triangle Island. She was never heard from again and went down with the loss of all hands.
Stoker Hume is buried in the Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, BC.
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Newspaper article on Doug Bate and Arthur Hume Source: George Douglas Stanley Bate and the Lost Ship, the GALIANO Courtesy of Gayle Jesperson
First World War Casualty Index - RCN
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