Athabascan seaman George Parsons with Chris Palmer shortly before their marriage, Nov 21, 1940

George (Buck) Parsons - HMCS Athabaskan

In Memory of 
Lieut-Commander JOHN HAMILTON STUBBS
D S O, D S C

O/70990, H.M.C.S. Athabaskan, Royal Canadian Navy
who died age 31
on 29 April 1944
Son of Maj. John Hamilton Stubbs and Dorothy Bessie Stubbs; husband of Ruth Stubbs, of St. John's Wood, London.
Remembered with honour
PLOUESCAT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Lieutenant John Stubbs RCN marries Ruth Moore in Victoria, British Columbia, Feb 28, 1940.  Their marriage would last four years, John would rise to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and command HMCS Athabaskan right to the bitter end.  He would lose his life in the sinking.

Lieutenant John Stubbs marries Ruth Moore

The parade square at HMC Dockyard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1942