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A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project
In memory of those who have Crossed the Bar
MacDONALD, John Jeffrey (Jack) - Bodies of victims sent home - The bodies of two young Halifax-based naval men killed early Friday in a car crash on the Bicentennial Highway will be forwarded to their homes in Quebec and Ontario this weekend for funeral service. AB J. H. Jacques Cote, 19, of Ste. Foy, Que., and AB John Jeffrey MacDonald, 20, of Toronto, both of whom were serving in the destroyer escort HMCS Crescent died when there car went out of control and ran off the road at the Bicentennial Highway junction with Hammonds Plains Road. The car rolled down an embankment where it was spotted by a passing motorist about 7:30 a.m. Halifax RCMP reported. Wreckage was strewn over a distance of 30 feet and the car was battered beyond recognition. The men were returning from short leave when the accident occurred. Cote, who was a cook on the Crescent, was the son of the late Mrs. Cote, 24 Lepremont Avenue, Ste Foy, and MacDonald who was a radar plotter was the son of Russell MacDonald, Toronto. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Saturday 11 May 1963)
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