For Posterity's Sake         

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

 

They made the Ultimate Sacrifice 

 

Gordon Grant Mowat

 

Sub-Lieutenant, O-53878, RCN

 

Born:  05 Oct 1934, Trail, British Columbia

 

Died: 12 Dec 1959 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

MOWAT, Gordon Grant, SLt, O-53878, RCN, died - 12 Dec 1959, 880 Anti-Submarine Squadron - Son of Leslie and Mary Mowat of Montreal, QC. Brother of Yvonne Wales. He enlisted in the RCN 03 Jan 1952, Halifax, NS.

 

SLt Mowat died when the Tracker he was crew of crashed shortly after taking off from HMCS BONAVENTURE. His body was not recovered.

 

Ships served in:

HMCS BONAVENTURE

 


 

In Service of Canada - RCN Peacetime Casualty Index

 

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