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Military service
Service number:
V/19493
Age:
24
Rank:
Leading 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. 10.
Additional information
Son of Henry Herbert and Rose Silk; husband of Inez Edna Silk, of Windsor, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
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Newspaper Clipping
Leading Seaman JAMES ERNEST SILK 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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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman James Ernest Silk
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 443 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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