Military Service
Service Number: 10772-H
Age: 20
Force: Navy
Unit: Royal Canadian Navy
Ship: HMCS Iroquois
Citation(s):
Korea Medal and United Nations Service Medal (Korea).
He enlisted in Hamilton, Ontario on Feb 15, 1949.
Elburne died when HMCS Iroquois was trading fire with an onshore gun battery and a shell from the shore batteries hit the ship. Two others were killed and ten were wounded in the explosion. It was the RCN's only combat-related fatalities of the Korean War.
The other two seaman who died were:
Able Seaman Wallis McBurnie Burden
Lieutenant Commander John Louis Quinn
Son of Mrs. Bertha Urena (nee Swaze) Chalmers (died 1983, Cremation) of Hamilton, Ontario. Half brother to James Clifford McGregor and Urena Rosetta Wishart.
He is also remembered on the Korean War Wall of Remembrance at Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario.
Military Service
Service Number: 10772-H
Age: 20
Force: Navy
Unit: Royal Canadian Navy
Ship: HMCS Iroquois
Citation(s):
Korea Medal and United Nations Service Medal (Korea).
He enlisted in Hamilton, Ontario on Feb 15, 1949.
Elburne died when HMCS Iroquois was trading fire with an onshore gun battery and a shell from the shore batteries hit the ship. Two others were killed and ten were wounded in the explosion. It was the RCN's only combat-related fatalities of the Korean War.
The other two seaman who died were:
Able Seaman Wallis McBurnie Burden
Lieutenant Commander John Louis Quinn
Son of Mrs. Bertha Urena (nee Swaze) Chalmers (died 1983, Cremation) of Hamilton, Ontario. Half brother to James Clifford McGregor and Urena Rosetta Wishart.
He is also remembered on the Korean War Wall of Remembrance at Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario.
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