Calvin Douglas Grimmon, Leading Seaman Anti-Aircraft Rating 3rd Class, RCN

They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

Calvin Douglas Grimmon, M.I.D.

Leading Seaman, Anti-Aircraft Rating 3rd Class, 4026, RCN

Born: 24 Jan 1922, Killam, Alberta

Died: 16 Nov 1942 at sea

Book of Remembrance

GRIMMON, Calvin Douglas, M.I.D., LS, 4026, RCN, MPK - 16 Nov 1942, SS CLAN MACTAGGART / HMS QUEBEC - Son of Ralph D. and Beatrice Kathleen Grimmon, Milford, ON.

Leading Seaman C. D. Grimmon, missing, presumed dead when the ship in which he was taking passage on the steamship SS CLAN MACTAGGART was sunk by U-92 of the coast of Cadiz. Two of his brothers Stirling Grimmon and Harry Grimmon were members of the Canadian Navy, while a Sister Kathleen served in the R.C.A.F. (Women's Division)

Ships served in:

HMCS NADEN - Enlisted 18 Nov 1940 as an OS, RCN

HMCS PRINCE ROBERT - Served in PRINCE ROBERT 14 Apr 1941 - 26 Feb 1942 as an OS and AB, RCN. Rated AB 19 Aug 1941

HMS QUEBEC (Royal Navy No. 1 Combined Training Centre, Inveraray, Scotland) - Drafted to HMCS QUEBEC 27 Jun 1942 as an AB, RCN. Rated A/LS, RCN (while on Combined Operations only).

SS CLAN MACTAGGART