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They made the Ultimate Sacrifice
GALLAGHER, Howard Joseph, LS LR III, 3596, RCN, MPK - 13 Sep 1942, HMCS OTTAWA - Son of Edward Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, of Melville, Saskatchewan; husband of Kathleen Gladys Gallagher, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Leading Seaman Howard Joseph Gallagher was the only son of Edward Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (Brierley) Gallagher and left a wife Kathleen Gladys and daughter Catherine Florence at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Howard was born at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and educated at Melville and was a student prior to enlisting on January 15, 1940 at Esquimalt, British Columbia as a seaman boy.
LS Gallagher 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 NADEN - Enlisted 15 Jan 1940 as a Boy Seaman, RCN * Rated Ordinary Seaman, RCN 29 Apr 1940 HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 09 Jul 1940 HMCS GASPE - Drafted to GASPE 10 Jul 1940 HMCS STADACONA - Drafted to STADACONA 11 Jan 1941 * Rated Able Seaman, RCN 22 Jan 1941 * Rated Layer Rating 3rd Class, RCN 10 Jul 1941 * Rated Acting Leading Seaman, RCN 16 Aug 1941 HMCS OTTAWA - Drafted to OTTAWA 16 Aug 1941 * Rated Leading Seaman, RCN 01 Aug 1942
Documents from the Service File of Howard Gallagher
Second World War Casualty Index
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