They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

 

Chesley Collier

 

Able Seaman, A1275, RCNR

 

Born: 03 Sep 1908, Foxroost, Burgeo & LaPoile, Newfoundland

 

Died: 13 Sep 1942 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

COLLIER, Chesley, AB, A1275, RCNR, MPK - 13 Sep 1942, HMCS OTTAWA - Husband of Ethel May Collier, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

AB COLLIER died when HMCS OTTAWA H60 was torpedoed and sunk by U-91 on 13 Sep 1942. Of her crew of 175, plus 50 survivors they had picked up, there were only 69 survivors.

 

Ships served in:

HMCS STADACONA - Enlisted 13 Feb 1940 as an AB, RCNR

HMCS OTTAWA - Drafted to OTTAWA 22 Aug 1941

 

Documents from the Service File of Chesley Collier

 


 

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