| SURNAME | GIVEN | Service # | Hometown | Comments |
| Avery | Edwin Chester | JX265170 | Long Beach | Born 1921, son of Alfred and Sarah (Langer) Avery. Chester Joined the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit In 1940, after being turned down for the navy because he was too young. On April 3, 1941 he transferred to the Royal Navy. After training in Lowesloft, England, he joined the HMS Hoxa, a submarine chaser and sailed to Freetown, West Africa where they convoyed in the South Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. In Dec. 1941 Chester contracted malaria and was hospitalized. After recovery, he joined the Corvette ‘Southern Pride’ convoying in the Indian Ocean for 2 ½ years. He spent the rest of his time in Africa at shore base in Simon’s Town Naval Base. On Sept. 8, 1943, Chester married Yvonne Van Rut of Cape Town, South Africa. In Dec. 1945, Chester returned to light duties at Scapa Flow, Scotland. Yvonne later joined him there. Chester returned to Newfoundland on March 17, 1946 and his wife arrived shortly afterwards. Chester passed away on Apr. 23, 2012 in Barrie, Ontario and his wife Yvonne passed away on Sept. 10, 2014. |
| Avery | Nicholas | 211462 | Hillview | Born 1920, son of Abraham and Phoebe (Green) Avery. Nicholas’ wife was war bride, Doreen Johnson from Stockton-On-Tees, County Durham, England. |
| Avery | Wilson | JX181440 | Long Beach | Born 1918, son of Alfred and Sarah (Langer) Avery. Wilson was killed in action Nov. 5, 1940: HMS Jervis Bay. The HMS Jervis Bay was the sole escort for 37 merchant ships in convoy HX-84 from Halifax on Oct. 28, to Britain when the convoy encountered the German warship, the Admiral Scheer. Captain Fogarty Fegen of the Jervis Bay ordered the convoy to scatter and set a course toward the German ship to draw fire and distract it from the convoy. As the Jervis Bay sped toward the Admiral Scheer, her crew dropped smoke canisters over the side, setting up a smoke screen to hide the merchant ships, giving them time to scatter and elude the German battleship. The Jervis Bay was outgunned and sank 755 nautical miles off Reykjavik, Iceland. Although the Admiral Scheer went on to sink 5 of the merchant ships in the convoy, the sacrifice of the Jervis Bay helped the remaining ships to escape. 65 survivors of the 254 crew of the Jervis Bay were picked up by the neutral Swedish ship, Stureholm. Captain Fegen was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross for his valour. |
| Barfitt | Heber Harvey | D/201703 | Long Beach | Born 1920, son of Llewellyn and Mary (Vey) Barfitt . |
| Barfitt | Hector | 315681 | Long Beach | Born 1921, son of Alfred and Delsie (Vey) Barfitt. |
| Benson | William Thomas | JX201704 | Hillview | Born 1920, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Green) Benson. Served in the Royal Navy from Jan. 1940-Jan. 1946. |
| Blundon | John K. | JX/247917 | Hatchet Cove | Born 1921, son of Eliab and Lydia Ann (King) Blundon. |
| Butt | Elijah Cyril | JX188859 | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1916, son of William and Annie (Price) Butt. Elijah was killed in action Oct. 22, 1943: HMS Orfasy. The Orfasy was torpedoed and sunk by German U-68 about 185 nautical miles off the coast of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa with a loss of all 30 crew members. |
| Dodge | Joseph | P/188902 | Little Heart’s Ease | Born 1914, son of John and Belinda (Peddle) Dodge. |
| Drodge | Cyril | Little Heart’s Ease | Born 1916, son of Jacob and Mary (Gosse) Drodge. Merchant Navy 1940-1943. | |
| Drodge | Maxwell | 211464 | Little Heart’s Ease | Born 1915, son of Jacob and Mary Lavinia (Gosse) Drodge. Royal Navy 1940-1946. He died Aug. 4, 1974. |
| Drover | Willis | JX225706 | Hodge’s Cove | Born 1921, son of George and Susanna (Bishop) Drover. Willis also served in the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. He was killed in action May 8, 1941; HMS Viva. The HMS Viva was a submarine chaser enroute from Falmouth to Milford Haven when it was attacked, bombed and sunk by German HE115 aircraft, 13 nautical miles west of Trevose Head, Cornwall, England. 10 men were rescued by HMS Cleveland. 19 men were lost. |
| Gosse | William Halstead | CJX230219 | Queen’s Cove | Born 1921, son of Silas and Martha (Goobie) Gosse. Served in the Royal Navy 1940-1946. |
| Green | Herbert | D/202019 | St. Jones’ Without | Born 1920, son of Levi and Isabella (Spurrell) Green. |
| Howse | Nelson M. | P/188826 | Queen’s Cove | Born 1920, son of Charles and Miriam (Robbins) Howse. |
| Ivany | Ambrose | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1921, son of Joshua and Priscella (Rodgers) Ivany. | |
| Ivany | Lewis | D/202019 | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1914, son of Joshua and Priscella (Rodgers) Ivany. |
| King | Ariel Francis | JX242227 | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1920, son of Guy and Hannah (Blundon) King. He served in the Royal Navy Jan. 7, 1941-Apr. 14, 1946. Ariel also served in the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. He died Apr. 15, 1976. |
| King | George Gladstone | 241679 | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1919, Son of Simeon Boyd and Zilpah (Miller) King. George also served in the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. |
| Lambert | Levi George | JX188918 | Hatchet Cove | Born 1917, son of Stephen and Rachel (Benson) Lambert. Levi was killed in action Aug. 10, 1940 when HMS Transylvania was torpedoed by the German U boat, U-56 off Malin Head, Donegal, Ireland. There were 300 survivors and 36 lives lost. The casualties were caused while lowering s.3 boat and in the capsizing of p.3 boat due to overcrowding. |
| Langer | Solomon M. | 247273 | Gooseberry Cove | Born 1921, son of John and Miriam (Cooper) Langer. |
| Loder | Nelson | 222623 | Hillview | Born 1917, son of Eli and Annie (Jackson) Loder. |
| Peddle | Clarence | 346228 | Hodge’s Cove | Born 1922, son of Archer and Maria (Jacobs) Peddle. Nelson also served in the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. |
| Pitcher | Archibald | Gooseberry Cove | Born July 17, 1916, son of Solomon Malcolm and Rachel (Smith) Pitcher | |
| Price | Abram John | P/188829 | Loreburn | Born 1915, son of John and Rebecca (Jacobs) Price. |
| Robbins | Eleazer | 211495 | Hatchet Cove | Born 1918, son of Henry and Elsie (Smith) Robbins. |
| Seward | Bernard | 316629 | Gooseberry Cove | Born 1917, son of Francis and Johannah (Ryan) Seward. |
| Seward | Ronald | 315721 | Gooseberry Cove | Born 1917, son of Peter and Beatrice (Coombs) Seward. |
| Smith | Chesley | 216683 | Gooseberry Cove | Born 1921, son of John and Dinah (Pitcher) Smith. |
| Smith | Herbert | P/174384 | Southport | Born 1919, son of James and Mary Sarah (Lambert) Smith. |
| Smith | Moses | 216684 | Butter Cove | Born 1912, son of Ebenezer and Siscely (Spurrell) Smith. |
| Spurrell | Arthur | P/188823 | Butter Cove | Born 1915, son of David and Mary Elizabeth (Hiscock) Spurrell. Royal Navy 1939-1946. Arthur enlisted in the Royal Navy in November of 1939 while he was working in Corner Brook. He was sent to the barracks in England and he spent his first winter on a ship in the North Sea. From there his ship sailed to Sussex, England, on to West Africa, Gibraltar and across the Atlantic Ocean. His ship’s mission was to escort convoys safely to their destinations. In 1943 Arthur was assigned to the Kilkinzie, a submarine chaser. The Kilkinzie sought out enemy submarines between Bermuda and South Africa. In 1944, Arthur was assigned to the merchant cruise, the Cangon. Shortly thereafter, he joined the destroyer, the Quail, which operated out of West Africa. He spent the last months of the war in West Africa working as a butcher for the Royal Navy. |
| Stringer | Isaiah | LT/JX217864 | Caplin Cove | Born 1913, son of Josiah and Mary (Drover) Stringer. Isaiah was killed in action Nov. 8, 1943; HMS Avanturine |
| Stringer | Lester | P/188827 | Hodge’s Cove | Born 1919, son of Joseph and Matilda (French) Stringer. |
| Strong | Henry George | 211574 | Little Heart’s Ease | Born 1914, son of William and Jessie (Benson) Strong. |
| Toope | Alfred | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1920, son of Charles and Maude Toope. | |
| Toope | Reuben (Brud) | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1922, son of Charles and Maude Toope. | |
| Tucker | Allan Chesley | 277246 | St. Jones’ Within | Born 1919, son of Abraham and Bessie (Burt) Tucker. |
| Vey | William James | JX225705 | Hodge’s Cove | Born 1918, son of William James and Rachel (Smith) Vey, Long Beach. William served in both the Navy and the Forestry. He died Oct. 14, 1942 on the SS Caribou, a ferry running from North Sydney, NS to Port aux Basques, NL. It was being escorted by the HMS Grandmere. On board were 46 crew members, 73 civilian passengers and 118 service personnel. All went well until about 30 miles from Port aux Basques when the ferry was struck by a torpedo from the German submarine U-69. 137 people lost their lives. |
| Vey | Raymond | 211521 | Long Beach | Born 1919, son of William James and Lydia Sarah (Jacobs) Vey. |
| Whalen | Nathaniel | JX/181264 | Caplin Cove | Born 1918, son of Edward Thomas and Maud Elizabeth (Smith) Whalen. |
Transcribed by Lester Green and Elaine Spurrell, November 2014
These transcriptions may contain human errors. As always, confirm these as you would any other source material.