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The HMCS Iroquois suffered the only Canadian naval casualties of the Korean War.
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Twelve feet from death
‘You’re a kid. You’re looking for adventure and we got lots of that’ By Jennifer Lang Royal Canadian Navy veteran Jack “Scotty” Moxam remembers the day his ship was hit by shell fire during the Korean War. The photo brings it all back. He was a young man when the picture was taken, just 21 years old. It shows the ‘B’ gun crew on the HMCS Iroquois, during training off shore in Korea. Moxam, standing, mans the gun, n, and four other seamen are assembled bled to his right. During action on Oct. 2, 1952, two of
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those men in the photo were killed, along with the ship’s gunnery officer, Lt.-Cdr. John Quinn, and 10 wounded. They were to be the only Canadian naval casu casualties of the war. ““The gun deck was hit by sh shore battery by North Koreans or Chinese, we don’t know an which,” he recalls. wh About 12 feet from where he was standing, a 120-mm mortar land landed that blasted a “bloody great hole h in the gun deck,” killing three men, me and spraying shrapnel everywhere everywhere. “I was standing where you see me in the
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Surrey’s Jack Moxam was 21 when this photo was taken on B gun deck on the HMCS Iroquois, a destroyer sent to patrol the waters off Korea. Leading Seaman Moxam was in this exact spot on Oct. 2, 1952 when three men were killed – including two in this photo – and 10 injured after shore battery hit.
photo, when it hit. I got a little shrapnel in my nose, which I pulled out, and that was it, thank goodness.” The blast ripped a hole from B gun deck to A gun deck on the lower level of the ship. Bakey, one of the loaders, was wearing Moxam’s jacket. “I had loaned him the jacket, because it was a bit of a cool day – a horrible day,” he says. “Everybody on A gun thought, ‘Oh my God, there goes Scotty.’” Moxam wasn’t terribly injured because he was standing by the gun, which was on a platform that was a couple of feet higher than the deck where the rest of the crew stood. One of the wounded men wound up at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. His injuries were so severe, he never left, and died in 1968. Moxam spent five years in the Royal Ca-
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nadian Navy. He joined in 1949 and got out in 1954. He served as a gunner on two ships – the Huron and the HMCS Iroquois. “You’re a kid, you’re looking for adventure and we got lots of that,” he told the Reporter, answering our callout for stories and memories from local veterans and their families. The Iroquois was a destroyer that fought during the Second World War and Korea. It was one of eight Canadian ships joining the United Nations and Republic of Korea in maintaining a blockade. Moxam was stationed first out of Sasebo, the British Navy Base in Japan, and later Kure, for a span of three years. “You work out of Japan doing patrol in Korea.” He was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1931.
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