A Sailor's Stories: TOM FRASER

Saturday, August 15, 2009

TOM FRASER

From: "Arlo M. Moen"
To: "Tom"
Subject: Re:
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:53 PM

Garry and Irene,
Condolences ! I am devastated too!
Arlo

From: Tom
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:39 PM
To: Arlo M. Moen

Arlo
We haven't met but I am Irene's son Garry. Mom wanted me to send you a message and let you know Tom passed away early this morning here at home where he wanted to be. We talked about you often. He will be missed.
Garry & Irene.

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AUTHOR’S NOTES:
I want to make it perfectly clear; the stories in stage one of this book
are unadorned fact, as true as my memory permits. These accounts constitute Naval History since they detail my servicein the destroyer, H.M.C.S. St. Laurent, when it was an escort for the first wartime
convoy leaving Bedford Basin in September1939; my service in the destroyer, H.M.C.S. Saguenay, when she was torpedoed in December 1940; my service in H.M.S.Drake during the Plymouth Blitz and my service in the battleship H.M.S. Rodney during its bombardment of the German battleship, Bismark in May 1941.They are the reason
I struggled to publish this book. Too many stories are being lost
as Naval veterans die off: Let these not be among them. The stories in stage two are creative factual accounts of the postwarNavy.
Stage three stories are vehicles to tell what it was like growing up in small town Saskatchewan in the 1930s. Stage four is the fictional product of my slightly deranged mind.

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Moen, a veteran of WW2 and a long time serviceman decided in his eighties he should write a book and A Sailor’s Stories is the result.
On December 1,1940, the HMCS Saguenay was torpedoed 300 miles west of Ireland by the Italian submarine Argo while escorting Convoy HG-47, and managed to return to Barrow-in-Furness largely under her own power, but with 19 dead and without most of her bow. Arlo Moen was there. He was also on board the H.M.S. Rodney, one of the ships that gave the famous last chase to the German battleship, the Bismarck. A Sailor’s Stories tells of the war and the times after the war when his ship visited Havana in the heady days of the fifties. Reading this book will make you think you are sitting with Arlo, knocking back a few rum and cokes while the stories flow.
Moen shares, as well, his life as a young boy in Outback, Sask during the depression. His stories about pest houses, travelling exhibitions, and the politics of ladies’ society clubs will bring that time alive.

Where I served
H.M.C.S. Naden - Training 03 Oct 38
New Entry
H.M.C.S. St. Laurent - Destroyer 05May39
Ord. Sea.
H.M.C.S. Saguenay - Destroyer 02 July 40
Ord. Tel.
HMS Drake (Niobe) -Signal est. 15 Mar 41
Tel. T.O.
HMS Rodney (Oc.Pass) Btl.ship 05 May 41
Tel.T.O.
H.M.C.S. Warrior - Carrier 05 Feb 47
R.A. 1/c
H.M.C.S. Magnificent - Carrier 07Apr. 48
R.T. 1/c
H.M.C.S. Quebec - Cruiser 20 Aug 51
C'd. Radio Officer
Bytown - Staff of EEc - NSHQ 16 Apr. 56
LT (L*)
H.M.C.S. Cayuga - Destroyer 18 Nov 58
LT (L)
Shelburne as Technical Officer 22 Aug. 60
LT (L)
Re-appointed 01Apr. 61 Lcdr(L)
Staff A/Supt Prod DKYD as
Chief Electrical Planning Officer
28 Aug 63 Lcdr (L) - 410-60
Stad. Ops. Div. as Admin. Officer
28 Jun 65 Lcdr (410-60)
Electrical Div. Fleet School as
Training Officer 12Jun 69
to retirement 30 Jan 71

A Sailor's Stories

Saturday, August 15, 2009

TOM FRASER

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