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Military service
Service number:
P/JX 212476
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
H.M.S. Hood
Birth:
Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
May 24, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 58, Column 2.
Additional information
Native of Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Ordinary Seaman Joseph Gallant
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Photo of Joseph Gallant
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H.M.S. HOOD
Joseph Gallant was on the HMS Hood when the ship had sunk, May 24, 1941. Samuel Gaudet, John Gillis and William Gallant were also on the ship that fateful day. A picture of the HMS Hood in Iceland just before its sinking. This picture was found in the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 65 in Brigus, Newfoundland."
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Ordinary Seaman Joseph Gallant
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Joseph Gallant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 160 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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