RCAF Sergeant Pilot Payne 2

HMCS Moose Jaw (K164) was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette, which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War and achieved the RCN's first U-boat kill of the war. 
On September 11, 1941 Moose Jaw and an other corvette rescued 41 survivors from the British merchant ship Berury, which had been torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-207 east of Cape Farewell, Greenland. - Took part in Operation Torch in September 1942. Then, she spent the next five months escorting convoys between the United Kingdom and Gibraltar. Later in 1943 she escorted coastal convoys until the end of the war. On February 28, 1945 Moose Jaw rescued six survivors from the British merchant ship Norfolk Coast, which was torpedoed and sunk by U-1302. 
 


HMCS Moose Jaw (K164)

World War II. Peter with is brother David, a BC Provincial Policeman.