They made the Ultimate Sacrifice
FROST, Lawrence Valentine, AB, A1777, RCNR, MPK - 22 Oct 1940, HMCS MARGAREE - Son of Garnett Wolseley Frost and Ethel Beatrice Frost, of Westport, Nova Scotia.
Able Seaman Frost died when his ship, HMCS MARGAREE, was struck by the freighter SS Port Fairy while in convoy and was sunk. 143 of her crew were lost, 86 of them were survivors of HMCS FRASER.
Ships served in: HMCS STADACONA - Enlisted 25 May 1940 as an Able Seaman, RCNR HMCS MARGAREE - Drafted to MARGAREE 14 Aug 1940 * Commissioning crew
Service file for Lawrence Frost Source: The Library and Archives of Canada
Second World War Casualty Index
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