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Sub-Lieutenant Margaret Brooke

Sub-Lieutenant Margaret Brooke was a Nursing Sister and dietician in the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II. She worked in the Navy Hospital at H.M.C.S. Avalon in […]

Letter from Nursing Sister Margaret Brooke

Transcript of audio clip: Male voice: Nursing Sister Margaret Brooke and her colleague Nursing Sister Agnes Wilkie were returning from leave when they boarded the S.S. Caribou on […]

Lieutenant James Cuthbert

Lieutenant James Cuthbert was the commanding officer of the Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper H.M.C.S. Grandmere. Grandmere was the Navy escort for S.S. Caribou on October 14, 1942, when […]

Nursing Sister Margaret Brooke

Photo captioned “Nursing Sister Brooke, a dietician at the Royal Canadian Naval Hospital, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 17 July 1943“ Nursing Sister Margaret M. Brooke was born in Ardath, […]

Ordinary Seaman Percy Moores

This photo of Percy Moores was taken in World War II, when he was a sailor in the Royal Navy. Since Newfoundland was a British colony and not […]

Interview with S.S. “Caribou” survivor Percy Moores

Transcript of CBC TV News interview with S.S. Caribou survivor Percy Moores on the 70th anniversary of the sinking in 2012: [Female TV News anchor in a studio […]