Drowning at Loughborough Inlet
3 July 1940
3 July 1940
Telegraphist Bernard Cecil Barlow of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve assigned to the Fisherman's Reserve Vessel Leola Vivian drowned during a fishing trip on 3 July 1940 at Loughborough Inlet. The Board of Inquiry was held at Esquimalt on 9 July with the process recorded on the attached pages. The Lance Bombardier Gayton mentioned is well known to many of our members as Lieutenant-Colonel Gayton, father of Captain Doug Gayton.