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Arthur Haliburton King
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Arthur Haliburton King
Ordinary Seaman
V/452
HMCS Ottawa
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
June 28, 1924
Windsor, Hants Co., Nova Scotia
February 11, 1942
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
17
5 feet, 7 inches
Fair
Hazel
Brown
Single
Student/Deck Hand
Church of England
Mrs. Mary King (Mother) Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
September 13, 1942
18
Halifax Memorial
Panel 9
Commemorated on Page 87 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 25
Arthur Haliburton King was the only son of Claude Clarke King (1884 - 1930) and Mary Letitia
(haliburton) King (1884 -1947) of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He was the brother of Elizabeth King
and Marie Louise King (1919-2002) . Arthur was known as “Sunny” to his family because of his
disposition and personality.
He had a passion for the sea, with a dream of serving on a Destroyer. He left private school at age 16
to join the Merchant Navy, serving for a year as a deckhand/gunner on SS Cathcart in the Caribbean.
He joined the RCNVR at age 17, and after time in Halifax and Sydney, was drafted onto HMCS Ottawa
just after his 18th birthday, joining his ship in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
HMCS Ottawa, escorting convoy ON-127, was torpedoed by U-91 between Newfoundland and
Greenland. The crew consisted of 201 officers and men. 132 were lost and there were 69 survivors.
Woodlawn Cemetery Memorial Stone,
Lequille, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
