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Sources Veterans Affairs Canada HMCS Valleyfield

Paul Chisholm Layton Leading Writer V/25279 Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve HMCS Valleyfield May 7, 1944 24 Halifax Memorial Panel 12 Commemorated on page 361 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 2 Paul Chisholm Layton was the son of Max MacDonald Layton and Florence C. Layton, of Great Village, Colchester Co., NS. He was missing and presumed dead when HMCS Valleyfield was torpedoed and sunk by enemy action in the Atlantic.