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Rear Admiral Leonard Murray and the Atlantic convoys

Rear Admiral Leonard Murray in 1943 (Department of National Defence).
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Leonard Warren Murray of Pictou County joined the navy as a cadet in 1911. As commander of the Newfoundland Escort Force and, from 1943, Commander-in-Chief Canadian North West Atlantic, he was a principal architect of the Allies’ North Atlantic convoy system in the Second World War.

Scope & context

Murray as described in his designation, not the Battle of the Atlantic as a whole (see CA-K102).

Sources behind this record

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Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text