For Posterity's Sake         

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

They made the Ultimate Sacrifice 

KEATING, William Dougald, AB, A1041, RCNR, MPK - 19 Oct 1940, HMCS BRAS D'OR - son of Henry K. and Mary J. Keating, Grosse Isle, Magdalen Islands, QC.

Able Seaman Keating died when his ship, HMCS BRAS D'OR, disappeared on the night of 18-19 Oct 1940 while following a Romanian freighter Ingerner N. Vlassopol in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  No trace of her or her crew was found.

Ships served in:

HMCS STADACONA - Enlisted 27 Nov 1939 as an Able Seaman, RCN(R)