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Service No.
Rank
Service
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Date of Enlistment
Place of Enlistment
Date of Death
Age
Cemetery/Memorial
Grave Reference
Source:
Veterans Affairs Canada
John Louis Quinn
0-60710
Lieutenant Commander
HMCS Iroquois, RCN
June 25, 1923
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
April 2, 1942 Regina,
Saskatchewan
October 2, 1952
29
Yokohama War Cemetery (Japan)
Plot D Row C Grave 6
Commemorated on Page 61 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance
Lieutenant Commander Quinn was the son of Colonel H.J. Quinn MM and Rosa Quinn of Regina,
Saskatchewan, the husband of Grace Lillian (Merrill) Quinn of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and father
of Charles Patrick Quinn of Armdale, Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant Commander Quinn was killed when an enemy shell from a shore battery opened fire and
struck the “B” gun turret of HMCS Iroquois during operations to bombard a section of the North Korean
railway along the east coast shoreline in the Songjin Area.
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