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Military service
Service number:
V/52131
Age:
28
Rank:
Telegraphist
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Strathadam
Death:
April 11, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. B.S. Grave 106.
Additional information
Son of John Walter and Maggie Friend; husband of Beatrice Elizabeth Friend, of New Westminster, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
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Newspaper clipping
Telegraphist JAMES THORPE FRIEND was one of six members of the crew of HMCS Strathadam killed by a premature explosion on board the frigate during an attack on a suspected submarine. Source: Globe and Mail June 9, 1945 -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator June 9, 1945 -
H.M.C.S. Strathadam
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Grave marker
James Thorpe Friend Gravesite Belfast City Cemetary -
Photo of James Thorpe Friend
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.April 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
Digital gallery of
Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
Digital gallery of
Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
Digital gallery of
Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
Digital gallery of
Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
Digital gallery of
Telegraphist James Thorpe Friend
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 516 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BELFAST CITY CEMETERY County Antrim, United Kingdom
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