They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

 

Ernest Clements

 

Wireless Telegraph Operator, OFF VR-58, RNCVR

 

Died: 12 Dec 1916 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

CLEMENTS, Ernest, W/T, VR58, RNCVR, MPK - 12 Dec 1916, HMCS GRILSE - Age 19, son of Thomas H. and Margaret A. Clement, of 84, Burton St., Hamilton, ON. W/T Clement was lost at sea when, along with 5 other men, he was swept overboard off HMCS GRILSE in a storm off Nova Scotia.

 

Ships served in:

HMCS GRILSE

 

Article from the Daily Colonist of December 19, 1916.


 

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