Wartime Heritage
ASSOCIATION
Service No.
Rank
Service
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Date of Enlistment
Place of Enlistment
Date of Death
Age
Cemetery/Memorial
Source:
Veterans Affairs Canada
Robert John Moore
7085-H
Able Seaman
HCMS Sioux,Royal Canadian Navy
December 27, 1929
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
March 8, 1949
Penfield Ridge, New Brunswick
July 21, 1951
21
Commonwealth Memorial (Busan), South Korea
Commemorated on Page 52 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance
Commemorated on the Korean War Memorial
Naval Museum of Alberta at HMCS Tecumseh, Calgary, Alberta
The Wall of Remembrance in Ottawa, Ontario
The Brampton National Wall of Remembrance.
Able Seaman Robert John Moore was the son of Herbert John and Mary Elizabeth Moore of Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia. Robert was the brother of William Henry, Victor Alexander, and Mildred Constance.
He was killed in an aircraft accident when a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-4 was lost at sea near the Gulf
of Alaska. He had served on the HMCS Sioux in Korea and was en route to HMCS Naden in BC. He is the
only Nova Scotian to die in the Korean War in the Royal Canadian Navy.
HMCS Sioux (Korea)
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