Five: Petty Officer 1st Class L. R. S. Stiner, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R., with Bar (P.O. 1/C.), cleaned, contact marks, generally very fine (5) £80-100

Leonard Robert Steele Stiner was born in Toronto, Ontario in February 1922 and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Stoker 2nd Class in June 1941. His first seagoing appointment would appear to have been the minesweeping sloop H.M.C.S. Drummondville, in which ship he served from March 1942 until October 1943, a period that witnessed his advancement to Stoker 1st Class. On 6 July 1942, while acting as an escort to Convoy QS. 15, the Drummondville had the misfortune to witness the destruction of three of her charges in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which was successfully penetrated by the U-132. Stiner went on to serve off Normandy in a vessel attached to H.M.C.S. Chaleur II and was advanced to Acting Stoker Petty Officer in November 1944. His final wartime appointment was in the corvette H.M.C.S. Peterborough.