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Military service
Service number:
V/46243
Age:
21
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Skeena
Death:
October 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C49. 30
Additional information
Son of Robert Frederick and Edith May Watson, of Oshawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Able Seaman Leonard Watson
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Newspaper Clipping
Able Seaman LEONARD WATSON was one of 15 sailors who died when a sudden night gale drove the destroyer HMCS Skeena ashore on Videy Island, two miles off Reykjavik Iceland, in the late evening/early morning of October 24-25, 1944. This list contains 14 names. The name of Leading Seaman JOSEPH FREDERIC ANDRE BLAIS is missing from this list, which was published in the Globe and Mail, November 18, 1944. -
HMCS Skeena
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Newspaper Clipping
Details of the loss of HMCS Skeena on October 25, 1944 were only made public in May 1945. Newspaper Clipping from the Globe and Mail May 17, 1945 -
Newspaper Clipping
Details of the loss of HMCS Skeena on October 25, 1944 were only made public in May 1945. Newspaper Clipping from the Hamilton Spectator, May 16, 1945. Part 1 -
Newspaper Clipping
Details of the loss of HMCS Skeena on October 25, 1944 were only made public in May 1945. Newspaper Clipping from the Hamilton Spectator, May 16, 1945. Part 2 -
Memorial
This memorial is located in Iceland. -
Memorial
This propellor that was salvaged from HMCS Skeena and it is dedicated in memory to fifteen Canadians who died while serving on the ship. -
Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Photo of Leonard Watson
In memory of the Fathers, Husbands and Sons of the Oshawa Branch of the Silver Cross Women of Canada. From their book titled Book of Remembrance which is held at the Oshawa Public Library.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Leonard Watson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 473 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR) CEMETERY Iceland
Reykjavik is in the south-western part of the island and the REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR)CEMETERY lies south of the town on the road to Hafnarfjordur.
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