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A Tale of Two Families Linked by a Naval Sword

LCdr (Ret’d) Paul Seguna, CD, CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum  —  The date of the Thanksgiving holiday this year held a special significance in linking the histories of two Vancouver Island families. On Oct. 14, 1939, just over a month after the outbreak of the Second World War, the battleship HMS Royal Oak suddenly sank […]