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Sub-Lieutenant (E) Donald William Dearness Tuke

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Military service

Age: 23
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (E)
Force: Navy
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division: H.M.C.S. Chedabucto
Birth: November 15, 1919 Haileybury, Ontario
Enlistment: February 8, 1943 Windsor, Ontario
Death: October 21, 1943 St. Lawrence Seaway, Québec

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 9.
Additional information
Son of William Henry and Jean Madeleine Tuke, of Haileybury, Ontario. Brother of John Frederic, Jean Madeleine and Margaret Helen. H.M.C.S. Chedabucto was sunk in a collision with cable ship LORD KELVIN near St Simeon in the St Lawrence River, Quebec.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 221 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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