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HMCS YORK
Toronto Company, RCNVR
Toronto Division, RCNVR
Toronto, Ontario
HMCS YORK was initially commissioned as the Toronto Company RCNVR on 10 Apr 1923. At the outbreak of WW2 the unit moved to the Automotive Building at the Canadian national Exhibition grounds. During the war, HMCS YORK was the first experience of naval life form more than 14,000 members of the RCN.
Commanding Officers
Lt Gordon B. Jackson, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1923 - unk
(FB06) HMCS York Naval Field Gun Crew, Aug 1943, Frank Belcher, 7th from right Source: Ian MacNeill Collection, Ancestry.com
Engineer Writer Class at HMCS YORK 14 May 1944 Click here to view a larger image
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(1) Stan Marton (2) George Joynt (3) CPO Lawson (6) Ed Forest (9) Dave Law
Names written on the back of the photo - not in photo numbered sequence: Pete Schatz, Stan Crookall, CPO Lawson, George Joynt, Stan Morton, Les Guest, Jim McCommkey (?sp), Emmet Hébert, Bill Leeder, Les Higson, D.W. Law, Fred Jones, Harry Claxton, Burnie Jenkins, Pat Ledger, Bob, Art Jones, Chas Hutchinson, Roy Outhlet (?sp), Bill White, Harold Anthony
From the collection of Dave Law, A/Sto 1c, RCNVR
HMCS YORK Wardroom Staff Christmas 1944 Click on the above photo to view a larger image Click here to view the photo with sailors numbered for identification
(18) Butson, Harold, RCNVR
From the collection of Harold Butson, RCNVR Courtesy of Doug Butson
Engineer Writer Class H - Nov 1943 Hamilton Division - 21 Mar 1944 Engineer Writer Class - Oct 1944
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