Louis Raymond Pavillard DSC, RCNR

Born  7 Aug 1911Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Died  4 Feb 1980(68)Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Ranks

4 Oct 1938 T/Lt.
1 Jan 1944 T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1 Jan 1945 T/Lt.Cdr.

Retired: 12 Dec 1945


Decorations

19 Dec 1944 DSC

Warship Commands listed for Louis Raymond Pavillard, RCNR


ShipRankTypeFromTo
HMCS Camrose (K 154)T/Lt.Corvette12 Apr 19417 Nov 1944
HMCS Sussexvale (K 683)T/A/Lt.Cdr.Frigate29 Nov 194416 Nov 1945

Career information

He was head of the Tenerife branch of Elder Dempster (Canary Islands) Ltd., Shipping Agents.

Events related to this officer

Corvette HMCS Camrose (K 154)


7 Feb 1943
HMCS Camrose (Lt L.R. Pavillard, RCNVR) picks up 72 survivors from the British merchant Empire Banner that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-77 west of Algiers in position 36°48'N, 01°32'E.

HMCS Camrose also picks up 59 survivors from the British merchant Empire Webster that was also torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-77 west of Algiers in position 36°47'N, 01°37'E.

12 Apr 1943
The Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix (A/Lt.Cdr. A.H. Dobson, DSC, RCNR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose (Lt L.R. Pavillard, RCNVR) together pick up 28 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Ingerfire that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day about 400 nautical miles east of Newfoundland, Canada in position 51°29'N, 42°59'W.

8 Jan 1944 (position 50.33, -18.03)
German U-boat U-757 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 50°33'N, 18°03'W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Bayntun (Lt.Cdr. L.P. Bourke, RNZNR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose (A/T/Lt.Cdr. L.R. Pavillard, RCNR).


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