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They made the Ultimate Sacrifice 

 

Alexander Earle Day, M.I.D.

 

Ordinary Telegraphist, V22229, RCNVR

 

Born:  17 Aug 1911, Belleville, Hastings, Ontario

 

Died: 26 Mar 1941 at sea

 

Book or Remembrance

 

DAY, Alexander Earle, Ordinary Telegraphist, V22229, RCNVR, MPK - 26 Mar 1941, HMCS OTTER - son of Morley A. and Alice Jane Day, of Toronto, ON.

 

 

Citation for Mentioned in Despatches:

 

DAY, Alexander Earle, Ordinary Telegraphist, V22029, (Posthumous) Mention in Despatches, RCNVR, HMCS OTTER - Awarded as per London Gazette of 4 November 1941.

 

"For gallantry and devotion to duty when HMCS Otter was lost."

 

 

Ships served in:

TORONTO DIVISION RCNVR

HMCS OTTER - Drafted to OTTER 03 Jan 1941 as an O/Tel, RCNVR

 

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(AD01) Certificate of Service - pages 1 and 2

(AD02) Report of Death

(AD04) Article on the death of O/Tel Day and OS O'Hara

(AD05) Tragedy Ends Romance - O/Tel Day was to be wed in three months time

 

 

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