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Military service
Service number:
V/16228
Age:
29
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Levis
Death:
September 19, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 8.
Additional information
Son of William and Mary Ashley, of Nipigon, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
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Newspaper clipping
Orville William Ashley, Able Seaman, was one of 17 Canadian sailors who died when the H.M.C.S. Levis was torpedoed by U74 in the early morning of September 19, 1941. This casualty list was published in the Globe and Mail on September 29, 1941. All are commemorated at the HALIFAX MEMORIAL Nova Scotia. An eighteenth sailor died, he was Ordinary Coder DERYCK HODGSON PICKUP aged 19, of the Royal Navy, son of James Thomas Pickup and Harriet Pickup of Newhey, Lancashire he is commemorated at the PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL -
Newspaper clipping
This account of the loss of the Levis appeared in the Globe and Mail September 29, 1941. Part 1. -
Newspaper clipping
This account of the loss of the Levis appeared in the Globe and Mail September 29, 1941. Part 2 -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, September 27, 1941 -
Photo of H.M.C.S. Levis
This photograph of the H.M.C.S. Levis is from the Readyayeready website. -
Document
This account of the sinking of the H.M.C.S, Levis is from the Uboat.net website. The number of survivors is in error. There were 40 survivors from a crew of 58. -
H.M.C.S. Levis
A photograph of the torpedoed H.M.C.S. Levis under tow is from Norman Mansfield -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Orville William Ashley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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