Special Remembrance Day ceremony onboard HMCS Iroquois

Posted Nov 9, 2013 09:08:39 AM.

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HALIFAX, NS– A special Remembrance Day ceremony is being planned for three sailors who served and died aboard the warship Iroquois during the Korean war.

The ceremony on board the vessel HMCS Iroquois in Halifax will honour Lieutenant Commander John Quinn, Able Seaman Elburne Baikie and Able Seaman Wallace Burden.

They died on October 2nd, 1952, during the Korean conflict.

The ceremony will include the placing of a plaque on the ship recalling the incident.

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