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Military service
Service number:
V/69461
Age:
19
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Shawinigan
Birth:
December 20, 1924
Bothwell, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 25, 1943
London, Ontario
Death:
November 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 11.
Additional information
Son of James Arthur and Gladys Anderson, of Mount Brydges, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Ordinary Seaman Stewart William Anderson
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Photo of Stewart Anderson
Stewart Anderson was born December 20, 1924, son of James Arthur and Gladys Anderson of Mount Brrydges. He attended the Continuation School in Mount Brydges and enlisted in the RCNVR at HMCS Prevost, London. He served in Bermuda before joining the crew of the corvette HMCS Shawinigan. On November 24, 1944 the Shawinigan left Sydney Nova Scotia for convoy duty across the Atlantic Ocean. With hours and in sight of land the corvette was torpedoed and sank with the loss of over 90 crewmen. Stewart Anderson was a month away from his 20th birthday. -
War Memorial
OS Anderson's name appears on the Mt Brydges Ontario Cenotaph -
Photo of STEWART WILLIAM ANDERSON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Stewart William Anderson
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Stewart William Anderson
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Stewart William Anderson
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Stewart William Anderson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 237 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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