They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

 

Thomas Allan MacDonald

 

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class, 21749, RCN

 

Born: 07 May 1921, Toronto, Ontario

 

Died: 13 Sep 1942, Gaspe (Fort Ramsay), Quebec

 

Book of Remembrance

 

MacDONALD, Thomas Allan, ERA 4c, 21749, RCN, DOW - 13 Sep 1942, HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN - Son of Leonard and Coral F. MacDonald, of Peterborough.

 

Engine Room 4th Class T. A. Macdonald died at sea of his wounds on September 13, 1942 which he sustained in enemy action when HMCS Charlottetown was sunk on September 11, 1942. ERA MacDonald was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Gaspe, Quebec. At the request of his mother, he was later  exhumed and reburied in the Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, ON.

 

Ships served in:

HMCS NADEN - Enlisted 15 Jul 1940 as an ERA 5c, RCN

HMCS PRINCE ROBERT - Served in PRINCE ROBERT 09 Oct 1940 - 16 Apr 1941 as an ERA 5c, RCN

HMCS MURRAY STEWART - Served in MURRAY STEWART 07 Jun 1941 - 04 Dec 1941 as an ERA 5c and an A/ERA 4c, RCN

HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN - Drafted to CHARLOTTETOWN 19 Feb 1942 as an A/ERA 4c, RCN

 

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(TM01-TM02) Certificate of Service

(TM03) Report of Death

(TM04) Letter to EA MacDonald's mother

(TM05) ERA MacDonald's headstone in the Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, ON

 


 

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