Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Second Radio Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Forthbank (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (148169)
Birth:
May 14, 1917
Kitchener, Nova Scotia
Death:
March 1, 1941
North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of Emil Fred Moser and Amelia May Melison McGovern of Waterloo, Ontario.
On 1 March 1941, convoy WN-91 was attacked in the North Sea by German aircraft. The Forthbank was hit by two bombs, but remained afloat. One of the bombs destroyed the ship's signal station, killing Moser.
Digital gallery of Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
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Photo
From Vol. 6 of the Ontario Canadian Legion Service Recognition Books. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Bio
From Vol. 6 of the Ontario Canadian Legion Service Recognition Books. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Leonard Moser
Second Radio Officer Leonard Moser was remembered at the "Thanksgiving for Victory" memorial service in Waterloo, Ontario on Sunday, May 20, 1945. -
Thanksgiving for Victory memorial service
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Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
List of casualties remembered at the memorial service
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
Digital gallery of
Second Radio Officer Leonard John Moser
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 197 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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