They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

 

Kenneth Lloyd Leslie

 

Stoker 1st Class, A1315, RCNR

 

Born: -5 Feb 1919, Sprybay, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

 

Died: 13 Sep 1942 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

LESLIE, Kenneth Lloyd, Sto 1c, A1315, RCNR, MPK - 13 Sep 1942, HMCS OTTAWA - Nephew of Mrs. Irene Russell, of Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

Stoker Leslie 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 24 Feb 1940 as a Stoker 1c, RCNR

HMS EMERALD (Emerald Class Light Cruiser of the Royal Navy) - Drafted to EMERALD 22 Jul 1940

HMCS DOMINION - Drafted to DOMINION 22 Nov 1940

HMCS OTTAWA - Drafted to OTTAWA 03 Jan 1941

HMCS AVALON II - Drafted to AVALON II 05 Nov 1941 (missed OTTAWA'S sailing)

HMCS OTTAWA - Drafted to OTTAWA 26 Nov 1941

 

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(KL01) Portrait of Stoker Kenneth Lloyd

(KL02) Article on Kenneth Lloyd Missing Believed Killed

(KL03) Documents from the Service File of Kenneth Lloyd

 


 

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