Our Gallant Doctor: Enigma and Tragedy : Surgeon Lieutenant George Hendry and HMCS Ottawa, 1942Dundurn, 30 Απρ 2007 - 280 σελίδες During the Battle of the Atlantic, Dr. George Hendry had just finished performing two major surgical operations on board the destroyer HMCS Ottawa when his ship was ambushed by 13 German U-boats. Canadian warships like Ottawa had inadequate radar sets that were incapable of detecting submarines approaching in the dark. On September 13, 1942, U-91 stole in and torpedoed Ottawa, sinking her in 20 minutes. utterly exhausted, Dr. Hendry was lost along with 113 of his shipmates. George Hendry was a much-loved man, a great university athlete, and a very good doctor. Unfortunately, he was also naive and too trusting. One night in January 1941, he committed a very foolish indiscretion. He would spend the rest of his tragically short life making amends for this mistake. |
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... Canada. Royal Canadian Navy-Surgeons--Biography. 5. Ship physicians--Canada--Biography. I. Title. D779.C2G65 2007 940.54'5971092 C2007-900083-5 1 2 3 4 5 11 10 09 08 07 We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and ...
... Canada's contribution to the Second World War. It is a hugely sad personal tragedy, the story of a young man entrapped by a single night of passion into a loveless marriage, from which the only escape seems to be service and sacrifice ...
... Canadian naval historiography. Its climax is the loss of HMCS Ottawa, torpedoed twice by a U-boat and sunk in mid Atlantic near midnight on September 13–14, 1942, with most of her crew while escorting westbound Convoy ON 127. Had she ...
... Doctor is a fitting memorial to him and to HMCS Ottawa. Tony German, Commander RCN (Ret'd) Author of The Sea is at Our Gates: The History of the Canadian Navy Preface I didn't realize that this was a story that 14 “Our Gallant Doctor”
... Canada at the time of the first GulfWar and set up practice in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, I read for the first time of George Hendry's carrying out an appendectomy on board HMCS Ottawa in Commander Tony German's superb history of the Canadian ...
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Chapter Three | 65 |
Chapter Four | 81 |
Chapter Five | 109 |
Chapter | 131 |
Chapter Seven | 149 |
Chapter Eight | 179 |
Epilogue | 193 |
Appendices | 211 |
List of Survivors HMCS Ottawa September 13 1942 | 225 |
Transcript of a Taped Interview of Captain T C PullenOC | 245 |
Bibliography | 268 |
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