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Military service
Service number:
V/44500
Age:
32
Rank:
Engine Room Artificer
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. St
Death:
September 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10.
Additional information
Son of Fred and Charlotte Corby, of Stratford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Engine Room Artificer George Richard Corby
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Photo of George Corby
George Corby was living at 440 Quebec Street, London, Ontario when he enlisted in London in 1942. His parents Fred and Charlotte Corby lived in Stratford. He was one of the 148 crewmen who went down with the destroyer HMCS St. Croix on September 20, 1943, age 23. -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Engine Room Artificer George Richard Corby
Digital gallery of
Engine Room Artificer George Richard Corby
Digital gallery of
Engine Room Artificer George Richard Corby
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 148 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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