They made the Ultimate Sacrifice

 


 

Edward Thomas Wall

 

Stoker 1st Class, A1740, RCNVR

 

Born: 26 Sep 1912, Reserve Mines, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia

 

Died: 26 Mar 1941 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

WALL, Edward Thomas, Sto 1c, A1740, RCNR, killed - 26 Mar 1941, HMCS OTTER - Husband of Nellie Wall, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

 

Stoker Wall died in the sinking of HMCS OTTER when she caught fire and burned while on patrol near Halifax. He is buried in the Bleumortier Cemetery, Castalia, New Brunswick

 

Ships served in:

HMCS STADACONA - Enlisted 22 May 1940 as a Sto 1c, RCNVR

HMCS OTTER - Drafted to OTTER 31 Oct 1940 as a Sto 1c, RCNVR

 

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(ETW001) Portrait of Stoker Edward Wall  //  Courtesy of Brian Wall

(ETW002) Service file for Edward Wall  //  Source: The Library and Archives of Canada

(ETW003) Headstone for Stoker Edward Wall at the Bleumortier Cemetery, Castalia, NB

 


 

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