James Mitchell Gillison, RCNR
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| Ranks??? | | T/Lt. | ??? | | T/A/Lt.Cdr. | 1 Jan 1945 | | T/Lt.Cdr. |
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Warship Commands listed for James Mitchell Gillison, RCNR
Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
HMCS Kamloops (K 176) | T/Lt. | Corvette | 17 Mar 1941 | 31 Oct 1941 |
HMCS Fennel (K 194) | T/Lt. | Corvette | 1 Nov 1941 | 26 May 1942 |
HMCS Timmins (K 223) | T/Lt. | Corvette | 31 Aug 1942 | 11 Jan 1943 |
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21 Nov 1942
HMCS Timmins (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.M. Gillison, RCNR) and HMCS Minas (T/Lt. W.F. Wood, RCNR) together pick up 60 survivors from the British merchant Empire Sailor that had been torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-518 about 200 nautical miles southeast of Sydney, Nova Scotia in position 43°53'N, 55°02'W. However, several survivors had been poisoned by the phosgene gas carried as cargo and twenty of them died at sea or shortly after arriving at Halifax.
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