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Passed peacefully away at his residence on Friday, August 27, 2010, Hedley G.Y. Harris of Broad Cove, age 89 years. British Navy, WW II Veteran. Predeceased by parents: Walter and Julia; brother: Maxwell. Left to mourn, wife: Janet; three daughters: Joyce (Gerald) Snow, Freshwater, Carbonear, Florence (Winston) Slade and Annie (Glen) Slade, both of Salmon Cove; three sons: Clifford (Donna) and Thomas (Shirley), both of Victoria and Barry (Renee), Conception Bay South; twelve grandchildren: Jerry (Melanie), Michael (Jessica), Clifford (Shianne), Adam (Carolanne), Sarah (Kevin), Aimee (Mitchell), Tammy (Frank), Kelly (Scott), Jennifer (Brad), Robbie (Vicki), Bradley and Crystal; fifteen great-grandchildren: Mitchell, Kaitlyn, Dakota, Anthony, Abigail, Alicia, Frankie, Brandon, Luke, Josh, Ava, Carly, Olivia, Peyton and Tyson; two brothers: Jack (Carrie) and Fred (Betty), both of Saint John, NB; four sisters: Janet Badcock, St. John's, Edna Griffith, Saint John, NB, Pearl Cousins, St. John's and Maxine (Ernie), Dildo; sister-in-law: Eileen Avery, St. John's; also a large number of other relatives and friends. Rev. Roscoe Cole conducted the funeral service on Monday, August 30 at Ocean View United Church, Broad Cove. Interment was in the United Cemetery, Blackhead. Donations in his memory may be made to the United Cemetery, Blackhead. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Western Bay. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.

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• He Helped Sink the Bismarck!

  Neil Earle on 13 septembre 2010

  “About ten or twelve years ago accompanied by my father, George W Earle, we visited Mr. Hedley Harris at his home in Broad Cove. The purpose was to follow up on what my father had told me, that Mr. Harris was on board the HMS Rodney that momentous May of 1941 when the British fleet got revenge on HMS Hood by sinking the dreaded German battleship Bismarck off Brest. As a full-time journalist and historian at the time, this was too good a chance to overlook.
  
  Mr. Harris was indeed a gunner way down in the bowels of the Rodney while the battle raged topsides. This was a dangerous place if the mighty Bismarck's guns could bring the Rodney in range.
  
  Hedley Harris was generous with his time and his memories. One thing that really stands out is when he told us that the recoil form the guns of those battle-wagons was so severe that they shattered the wire cable forming the "fencing" around the ship--I'm sure there is a nautical term but I can't place it just now.
  
  It is so true that when an elder dies a town loses a library. I'll always remember this gentle warrior who experienced events my generation could only read and sing about. ”

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