Moyle Haliburton CROFT

Aus Find A Grave: Abl Smn Moyle Haliburton Croft BIRTH unknown DEATH 29 Apr 1944 BURIAL Halifax Memorial Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada PLOT Final resting place unknown. Name listed at Panel 7 on the Memorial. MEMORIAL ID 56171182 · View Source Gravesite Details: Able Seaman, Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. Age: 31. -------------------- CANADIAN VIRTUAL WAR MEMORIAL Moyle Haliburton Croft In memory of: Able Seaman Moyle Haliburton Croft April 29, 1944 Military Service Service Number:A/4958 Age: 31 Additional Information Husband of Rosalean Croft, of Rose Bay, Nova Scotia. Commemorated on Page 283 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Force: Navy Unit: Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Division: H.M.C.S. Athabaskan Burial Information Cemetery: HALIFAX MEMORIAL ; Nova Scotia, Canada Grave Reference: Panel 7. Location: The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows: 1914-1939 1918-1945 IN THE HONOUR OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NAVY ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY OF CANADA WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED HERE THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN BUT THEIR MEMORY SHALL ENDURE. On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.

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