Frank Edward “Huck, Joe Fink” Aldred

Home Town: Toronto, Ontario Conflict: World War II Branch: Navy

  • Intercepted German freighter Hermonthis scuttled by her crew. April 1, 1941
  • Torpedo on upper deck ready for routine maintenance.  
Standard naval torpedo, 21 inch diameter. 1943.
  • Portrait fo Frank Aldred. "I'm holding the tree up."
Halifax, 1940.
  • Frank Aldred crossing the Equateur - King Neptune comes aboard for an initiation ceremony to commemorate sailors' first crossing of the equator. 
March 2, 1941. Frank Aldred was on watch, and so was spared the initiation. He took this picture from the upper deck of The Prince Henry.
  • Frank Aldred (on the left)  with Len Carlton (Gunner), on the upper deck of the HMCS Skeena, doing laundry. Either in St. John's,  Newfoundland or outside Reijkavik, 1942.
Intercepted German freighter Hermonthis scuttled by her crew. April 1, 1941 Frank Aldred
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